AIWA AD-F810K 3 Head Cassette Deck

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Re-advertised due to buyer-fail.

I've only had one better cassette deck than this one, and it was another high level AIWA. Beats all the other brands I've had over my hifi career of about 50 years!

Main belt changed recently and I've included a spare belt kit. Rec/Play heads look fine to naked eye. If magnified greatly there appear small yellow dots.

These have no audible impact on record or play functions.

Specs:

Type: 3-head, single compact cassette deck

Track System: 4-track, 2-channel stereo

Tape Speed: 4.8 cm/s

Heads: 1 x record, 1 x playback, 1 x erase

Motor: 1 x reel, 1 x capstan

Tape Type: type I, CrO2, Metal

Noise Reduction: B, C

Frequency Response: 15Hz to 20kHz  (Metal tape)

Signal to Noise Ratio: 80dB  (dolby C)

Wow and Flutter: 0.035%

Input: 50mV (line)

Output: 0.37V (line)

Dimensions: 430 x 140 x 318mm

Weight: 4.9kg

Year: 1991

From Hifi Review: "This deck is a tremendous success on a variety of levels. The transport, for example, is about the most stable of any deck I have encountered in this price range. There wasn't the slightest instability of pitch in sustained piano or woodwind notes. Missing, too, was that subtle hardening of tone that betrays the presence of wow and flutter too rapid to register in any other way. This, plus a lower than expected level of modulation noise, meant clearer, more dynamic recordings.

The various Dolby circuits all worked well, too. The HX Pro circuit's effect was not testable - it can't be switched off - but Dolby B and C were unusually transparent, in part due to good tape alignment. Standard tapes of each type gave an accurate tonal balance without any tweaking of bias levels, and no sensitivity adjustment was needed to ensure proper Dolby tracking, though this won't apply to oddballs like That's Type II metals."

Edited 1 hour ago by Spinnergeoff
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