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Cheap but good 1991 Realistic Clarinette 125 stereo
Cheap but good 1991 Realistic Clarinette 125 stereo system
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Listen to Yacht Rock on a dinghy budget with Radio Shack’s cheapest stereo system from the early 1990s.
Time flow:
0:00 Introduction
2:06 Radio tuner
4:33 Cassette playback
8:05 Turntable
10:49 Teardown
13:23 Repair
15:33 Vinyl playback
17:11 Conclusion
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Surprisingly good for what it is. Great vid
New Jersey Radio station!!!!!!
Were you in Owensboro, KY? There was an exact model like this at our Peddlers Mall. I just saw it as generic as all get out and left it
Found the IC as LA1186N : FM Front End for Radio-Cassette Recorders, Music Centers
You should ask Techmoan what he thinks about belt boiling.
Personally, I am disappointed stereo equipment didn't go through the same beige phase computers did. I would love a smoker's lung yellow Craig amp.
More amazed that you have the original Radio Shack catalogue from that year!!😃
Perfect example of why you adopt don't shop!
My parents purchased an all in one deck for me as a Christmas present in high-school. It had a cd player and dual cassette. No record player. It wasn't bad, but I didn't like the volume reduction when dubbing tapes. You can hear could hear it occur on the playback of the copied tape.
In 1996 you could get plastic but reasonably low priced small Venturer system with CD and a remote… just for the Cd. Manual tuner and basic cassete functios.
Does "TECHMOAN" know about this ????
My 1st stereo lol.
oooo tuned into a few seconds of marketplace there! great video 🙂
I wouldn't really want to use that turntable, but otherwise this is a perfectly cromulent sound system. It would have been entirely serviceable and acceptable, and proves that not all cheap plastic crap was actually cheap plastic crap. The real trick would've been discovering where that was the case, particularly in a pre-internet world. It must have been quite a lottery, but a pleasant surprise when you were a winner in it.
I dunno why people buy Crosleys. I suppose being portable is handy, and they haven't otherwise made portable all-in-one record players since the 1970s. But for the money there's high-end stuff from Technics and Sony and all the other makes, second-hand and cheap because supply exceeds demand. You could get something that sounds good and enjoy your music instead of it being a stupid novelty. Kids today!
(and they're not friggin' "vinyls"! They're "record players"!)
To be fair the continuous tape play logo does have an arrow from 2 to 1. It's tiny but it's there, so they aren't trying to mislead you, it's supposed to work that way. Double-tape decks were always that way, far as I can remember.
The systems like this may be better than what's around today, but that's not saying much! The capetronic record decks were the worst. Often, the manufactuers didn't even bother with equalizing the input on the amp, so it sounded weedy. I disagree with the idea that the Chuo Denshi cart being superior, those CZ800s had plastic cantilever, usually came with crappy sapphire styli and they tended to jump on louder passages of music. The higher compliance metal-shanked styli on the clones you find online are actually better!
Realistic sold some great stock, take the realistic tape deck which was simply a rebranded Teac reel to reel which was a high end deck! Tandy came to England and setup shop selling a great deal of great hi-fi. The only reason they went bust is because they used plate glass windows with all the stock to show and there were dozens of ram raids that simply robbed the living daylights out of them. A real real shame, it was such a great store.
10 watts of pure sounds😂😂
The key is, as you say, the properly matched 'high' impedence amplifier. I like the suitcase record players. Maybe it's nostalgia for me as I remember my M&D had one back in the late 70's. It had valves inside (you could see them glow) Sounded good when I was a kid and I was amazed when the tonearm moved over and knocked the next record onto the turntable. I can guarantee it had a ceramic cartridge in it too. All the cheap turntables these days seem to connect a ceramic cartridge to a low impedence amplifier (doh!) which kills the bass and makes your records sound tinny. I ripped out the internals of my crosley, replaced the speakers, ceramic cartridge and needle (flip over), weighted the tonearm, installed a high impedence preamp and a 10w main amp. It sounds tons better and is ideal for me due to the portability of it 🙂
Wow. turned out much better than I expected. The only thing I'ld be missing is Dolby I guess.
I got the Clarinette 104 back in 1982… I was on Cloud 9 as I didn't have any 'stereo' at all and I played records and tapes until the unit died about 5 years later. I think I wore out the tape head playing AC/DC all the time…