Wornears
Age & Treachery
Found one of these units with remote in outstanding cosmetic condition for $15.00 at a local thrift, so I had to "rescue" it. Has an issue with the right channel randomly jumping to full output (POP!) on playback of analog cassettes, which I haven't been able to resolve. Haven't got it to fail-hard, yet.
The Digital Cassette format died in 1996, being beat out by MiniDisc, but the 900 will play regular analog cassettes, but incredibly, will not record to them. Wonder who was responsible for that design "feature"?
BUT, on the real upside, it has an internal converter to output analog tapes to Digital Out -- which I'll use to digitize many of my prized analog cassettes.
What a transport mechanism and robust internals -- a tank! Anyone have any owner or service manuals I can pay for the originals or copies? I appreciate the help.
The Digital Cassette format died in 1996, being beat out by MiniDisc, but the 900 will play regular analog cassettes, but incredibly, will not record to them. Wonder who was responsible for that design "feature"?
BUT, on the real upside, it has an internal converter to output analog tapes to Digital Out -- which I'll use to digitize many of my prized analog cassettes.
What a transport mechanism and robust internals -- a tank! Anyone have any owner or service manuals I can pay for the originals or copies? I appreciate the help.