Category : Decks

Here comes another bunch of photos of another good 2nd hand store:

Here are a bunch of photos I’ve took in several visits to this good store:

Here are some photos of another very nice store here at Barcelona: 10000 records:

Here are some photos I’ve took a while ago at Darthy store (facebook page here):

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Double decks have been the king of the hill for the late 80s and almost the entire 90s. Everyone had one of these at home or in the boombox. But there were a few decks that could carry with up to 5 and even 6 cassettes inside. These decks could do a 10-hour playing session without […]

If you thought auto-reverse decks and walkmas were always using 4-tracks heads or rotating heads, then you should see this beautiful video by Matt, aka Techmoan. Beautiful. My Nakamichi RX-505 works with the same principle of this AKAI, but in a much more clever way.

In this video my friend Mat, aka Techmoan, shows many things about cassettes. I absolutely love this video, and I think it’s one of the best out there. Not only it explains many things very cleverly, it is also a pleasure to watch to. It’s probably my favorite one of his videos. Remember that if […]

Some time ago I got a nice TASCAM 414 MkII added to my collection. It’s a very cool cassette-based recording deck with 4 independent channels. It was used by small bands in the early 90s to record their songs without having to spend high money on a studio. Though it hasn’t 8 or 16 tracks as professional […]

Some months ago I got, thanks to a bit of luck, the most sophisticated deck AIWA ever released, the XK-S9000. I still remember to watch and drool while seeing this piece of beauty in the brochure that I still have saved since 1992. I always wondered how much better can it sound compared to my […]