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This thing is crazy. It's this giant cassette deck with an ultimate late '70s look to it. Those huge vertical VU meters, LED "Spectropeak" display, that power button, those piano keys, beautiful.

It's in impeccable condition, all the knobs are there, not even a scratch on the cassette door window.

It's massive, super heavy and huge. Inside it's amazing, it's a basic single motor mechanism but everything's huge in there. Huge motor, gigantic flywheel, and some kind of internal secondary chassis to hold stuff in place. Belt's slack though, at least it ain't goopified.

It doesn't do Dolby but has ANRS and Super ANRS, some kind of alternative noise reduction system.

It didn't power up at the Renaissance but it was 15$. It will make a decoration or bookend if, as I suspect, I will never attempt to repair it.

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[โ€“] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You can't leave that non-functional! ๐Ÿ˜ข In any case, don't fuck it up for someone who may have the skills to make it fly again!

[โ€“] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

I have the skill, not the will.