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The Coolest LCD of any Cassette Deck – Pioneer CT447
The Coolest LCD of any Cassette Deck – Pioneer CT447 Repair / Service
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This nice little Pioneer CT447 Cassette Deck has, in my opinion, one the nicest and absolutely unnecessary LCD screens I have …
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This is a VFD, no LCD.
No liquid crystals here. It is a vacuum fluorescent display – most of which are far nicer – see Aiwa. They must be treated with care as if they lose vacuum, they fail!
That LCD is not an LCD.
Very satisfying …I could watch those dancing meters all day..
If the calibration failed, does it tell you why, which step?
As much as I like auto-cal on the Revox, it almost always stumbles on late BASF chromes. Early ones (if still alive) are usually fine, but the cheap late CSII and some Maximas always beat the Swiss firmware. Sometimes it says OK, but it's definitely not (over-the-top upper mids), sometimes it just flashes "fail".
Cassette decks are laughable in 2024!! 🗑️😆
Those ALPS transports were also used in Sony's around the late 80's. These transports are great quality and last forever. Even the used belts are high quality. My TC-RX80ES (1989) still works perfect with the original belt.
Looks like a VFD to me, which is even cooler!
Pretty cool, I too buy decks for fancy features these days regardless of range positioning. As you progress in the field you may find yourself wanting very specific units mixing unlikely features of the era like 3 head, auto reverse, random track access, intro scan, play trim, forward and reverse dubbing, digital fader… each deck can be unique.
Your belt is a little bit too much for width and tension by glance alone. I could probably know better for the tension but over the years I've developed a sense for how much a belt should be stretched and it isn't much… the best results are obtained when it's almost loose. DeckTech is a brand you can trust even if like me you already have singularly packed quality belts they offer kits that put you ahead of schedule on your next machine. Meanwhile in the past I've spent about 30 bucks a piece from two highest ranking eBay sellers from DE. I've verified their belts were very similar or equal to the best belts I use down to the color tone and rubber texture… for what I saw they could have come from the same factory but their asking was several magnitudes more.
Sweet deck
Nice deck and good work. The BLE was cool
Omega aficionado? I am more of a vintage collector myself 😎 and its always a whole exploration to see how to remove transports on machines youve never seen before
Love that display. How does it sound? (with non accordion music :P) Will you be keeping this one?
Good to see such a nice looking deck back in service. I like Pioneer tuners but never had their cassette decks 😕
1990-91, by the way
I had one of these in the mid 90s. Really good tape deck!!!
Lovely design panel on the transport, and cool display.
I had that deck but as a dubbel deck with both decks record functions to do relay recording or record 2 tapes at the same time same display just an extre counter for the second deck and auto reverse …. wish i still had that deck it costed me around 1200 guilders in that time a really good high end deck
Nice video. Are you from Scotland? I like your accent.
Nice job resorting a really nice deck as usual. 😁 I love the simplicity of the transport, sometimes less is more. I also love the Auto BLE animations as much as you do. They just don't make machines like this anymore sadly, but it's nice to see this vintage stuff getting some love.
Nice deck but the display isn't a LCD but a VFD display
Just love your videos you are a very skilled person I wish I could do what you do, had an interest in cassette tapes since 1978 buy a lot of my music on pre-recorded cassette 😊
I have the same deck, and I love it, it's very reliable and a good deck to check if old tapes are still good enough. Because when you got a bad old tape, it won't tune it and the display will show "error". I also wanted that deck because of the display. It's recording and sounding very well. The only thing, you should clean it often, the head and the pinch roller, otherwise the sound becomes muddy very quickly. Nonetheless, a very cool deck to have, got mine for 30 Euros.
P.S. Play an accordion–go to jail. It's the law.
Now you won't have to go to all the trouble of getting a Christmas tree and decorating it with lights! Just set the deck up and play its flashing lights while you drink eggnog and your cats and/or children sneak around trying to open the presents early!
Looks almost like a Sony TC-K679ES or TC-K690.