#tapedeck

tagged by @t-800 !!! this one was super fun :)

Blast to the past - the "Spaceball" 🚀🎶📻 Weltron (1970) PORTABLE & TRACK STEREO TAPE PLAYER MODEL 2001 WITH AM-FM MULTIPLEX RADIO

REWIND TEST // signal path check (RX-150A + RD-15F)

Short clip in this post: the counter / ticker counting down as I rewind signal // NOISE back through the deck — time running in reverse, information rethreading itself.

Stills: vintage Rotel stack doing what it was built for:

Rotel RX-150A (amp / tuner)

Rotel RD-15F (tape deck)

signal // NOISE cassette in the window like a tiny monochrome title card: “DSP • signal // NOISE”

Dolby System badge sitting there like a quiet joke about “cleaning up” a signal that was never clean to begin with.

This is me quality-checking the test run of cassettes (as best I can with my hearing) — not “is it perfect?”, more “does the artefact behave?”: level, balance, dropouts, any obvious faults… and the more subtle question: does it still feel like the same machine when it comes back out?

Also: I’ve now got the Avantree Audikast 3 (Bluetooth 5.3 transmitter) hooked up to the amp so I can stream the tape output straight to my CI/HA. Analogue tape → vintage amp → Bluetooth → prosthetic hearing. A whole relay chain of translation layers… which, honestly, is basically the album’s thesis in miniature.

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[Bonus stuff under the cut.]

i suppose this would be classicalnatural...?