It turned out the M9998's cassettes drive problems actually were the fault of the cassettes I was using for testing. They were Ampex, probably...
Odd that yours shows signs of plenty of use but still has the cassette door sticker. For an update on mine, I replaced the Q104 transistor. That...
There's an Aiwa HS-PX30 on eBay right now, but it looks like it's been through a war. https://www.ebay.com/itm/166618835833
Here's some more information about these unusual players. I'm not about to buy one....
[ATTACH] What is this thing? https://vancouver.craigslist.org/rds/msg/d/surrey-rare-ibanez-rock-play-cassette/7726295905.html
Hmm, It didn't even occur to me that the old cassettes might be anything special. I also have a few Memorex, which came in an unusual side-opening...
I've just finished digitizing about 50 cassettes. About half are commercial albums and the others were blank cassettes that I recorded music onto...
What would be a really neat feature for any modern boom box or cassette player would be a setting to convert and store, as an mp3 in internal...
I'm not going to be much help since I've been struggling with my own M9998. I can only offer some ideas. Hopefully the real experts will offer...
After replacing the belts, the problem with cassettes slowing to a stop turned out to be sticking 40-year old cassettes. Not the motor. Its...
I have more photos for the repair post, but uploading them is driving me nuts. I'll try again later.
This relates to my post about fixing two of these units. https://www.stereo2go.com/forums/threads/aiwa-hs-j09-hs-j600-etc-belt-replacement.9345/...
This post is one of 3 related posts. I'll remove this line when they are complete.) (The videos linked to in this post are not by me.) Most of...
Aiwa HS-J09 (+ HS-J600 etc.) Belt Replacement (This post is one of 3 related posts. I'll remove this line when they are complete.) Most of these...
My attempts to embed images in the opening post didn't work out so well. Maybe this will work. [ATTACH] The original HS-J09 after many cosmetic...
(This post is one of 3 related posts. I'll remove this line when they are complete.)...
I hope you are experimenting with a throw away tape.
I've been fixing an HS-J360, bought as-is and not working. The J360 seems to be the same as the J350 but without the chrome. I bought it to swap...
I certainly wouldn't buy such a device. Once songs are digitized, which they all are, there is no reason to use an unreliable and bulky system of...
I think most likely a new walkman would comprise the audio subsystem or chip from a smart phone plus a cassette drive mechanism. It would have...
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