Nice site ! I have about 12 "walkman" type personal cassette machines and only a few will play cassettes. I'm looking forward to gaining some knowledge and making a few repairs . I have worked on electronics for over 40 years from doing everything from Guitar Amp. , pawn shop and radio station repairs to building transmitters and restoring old tube Hi Fi .units . I also have a a few FCC tickets and have been known to work 2 /6M am from time to time . KC8HGQ Matt Laube
Thanks! I have a collection of about 300 reel to reel machines but none from USSR/Russia. Did your country have an official electronics brand ? Do you know of any reel machines that were produced in the late 40's-early 50's ?
Wow Matt, you got 300 reel to reel machines ??? I have about 400 walkmans and had to let some go due to lack of space. How do you manage your reel to reel collection ? you should have a huge office to accommodate them. i would love to see your collection.
Well ..when I built my house I dug the basement an extra foot deep and added a door to the outside-a "walk out" if you will. My friend used to work for United Artists and when they closed up their shop in Cincinnati I drug home about 6 film racks and modified them to store/display/stack machines. I have gear strewn about the house and a very understanding wife. But Just one machine on the ground floor and a Nagra upstairs ! I could send some photos but I thought this was the portable cassette site.
Sure, mate, there were reel to reel's "Back in the USSR". Here you can find some info on them, Google Translate will help. Including those from 40-50's. Hope you will enjoy them, I do like reel to reel's too. Oldies but goldies. http://savok.name/144-magnitofon.html http://abrgen.ru/magnitofony/ http://wheeland.ru/катушечники-ссср-1976-1985-гг/ https://vk.com/hifi.analog https://dubikvit.livejournal.com/88027.html http://back-in-ussr.com/2014/12/katushechnye-magnitofony-ili-bobinniki.html
I sat and stared at those great websites for hours ! Excellent photos and information. I'm thinking maybe some of those machines made their way to Cuba or Canada-maybe some day I will see one ! Thank You very much for those great sites ! I'm thinking about posting some photos and information of some of my collection. Did you ever see any wire recorders in Russia?
On the web I have some photos of a few of my Presto machines and one group of those made in Ohio (Ohio Recorders) . Google should find them
Matthew, you are much welcome! Glad you liked those. As for wire recorders - never seen one myself but heard something. Ah, sure, I am a keen fan of aviation - wire recording plane black-box recorders which had been widely in use on aircrafts before digital ones replaced them. But that's professional highly specialized equipment. I will check with my forum guys on the rest - maybe they will advise.
My fellow forumer isn't aware of any consumer wire recorders (who would buy such ones with a very narrrow dynamic range for home use? ), instead he came up with 2 links to professional ones (military, avia, special services): https://fishki.net/2390504-provolochnyj-magnitofon.html http://www.hammarlund.ru/MIKUS/sp2.htm
On my end I also run some quick search: http://chert-poberi.ru/hi-tech/provolochnyiy-magnitofon-28-foto.html https://sr-hamlet.livejournal.com/144216.html http://www.rw6ase.narod.ru/00/mg_katp/tantal.html
Tried to search but came across only this site: http://museumofmagneticsoundrecording.org/CreditsSources.html
