Akai CS - M02
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reubensm
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It really looks slick and cool, congratulations on your purchase. How's the performance in your rig?
Mechanism is the mechanical type, please handle carefully. Hard presses and very slow presses will damage the mechanism. Use gentle but moderately quick presses, especially when engaging the recording key with the play key. Prefer not to rewind, fastforward or cue often (irrespective of the kind of deck, this is not a great practice). With mechanical mechanisms, while playing if the power is turned off, the head and pinch roller assembly continues to engage and hence, a mild kink will appear on the tape where the capstan engages the pinch roller (this is more from the perspective of protecting your tapes
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Mechanism is the mechanical type, please handle carefully. Hard presses and very slow presses will damage the mechanism. Use gentle but moderately quick presses, especially when engaging the recording key with the play key. Prefer not to rewind, fastforward or cue often (irrespective of the kind of deck, this is not a great practice). With mechanical mechanisms, while playing if the power is turned off, the head and pinch roller assembly continues to engage and hence, a mild kink will appear on the tape where the capstan engages the pinch roller (this is more from the perspective of protecting your tapes
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theironhorse
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looks super cool.. no more into casettes but would love to keep similar one in my rack just for the kick..
sarith
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Just checked vdo on this model and it sounds good. If it was me, I would open it up to look how good it looks inside. Does it have the original Akai head? How much did you pay for it? Looks clean and well taken care of..Congrats
sarith
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Looks nice.
Just checked vdo on this model and it sounds good. If it was me, I would open it up to look how good it looks inside. Does it have the original Akai head? How much did you pay for it? Looks clean and well taken care of..Congrats
Hi,
How will I understand if it's an original Akai Head or a generic one? I did ask the vendor from whom I bought and he did say that it has the original head but cannot cross check.
I paid 4.5k
It really looks slick and cool, congratulations on your purchase. How's the performance in your rig?
Mechanism is the mechanical type, please handle carefully. Hard presses and very slow presses will damage the mechanism. Use gentle but moderately quick presses, especially when engaging the recording key with the play key. Prefer not to rewind, fastforward or cue often (irrespective of the kind of deck, this is not a great practice). With mechanical mechanisms, while playing if the power is turned off, the head and pinch roller assembly continues to engage and hence, a mild kink will appear on the tape where the capstan engages the pinch roller (this is more from the perspective of protecting your tapes
Thanks for the insight friend. U have been a great help throughout. I ll definitely keep in mind what u have said.
How do I protect my tape if a sudden power cut happens?
reubensm
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You are very welcome. Just thought I'd let you know about the tape kink, not that you should go all the way to use your cassette deck with a UPS. That would well and truly be an overkill
on another note I suggested to gentle but moderately quick presses, especially when engaging the recording key with the play key. Please read this statement as "use gentle but brisk presses, especially when engaging the recording key with the play key"
When typing the note, the word "brisk" skipped my mind.
You are very welcome. Just thought I'd let you know about the tape kink, not that you should go all the way to use your cassette deck with a UPS. That would well and truly be an overkill
on another note I suggested to gentle but moderately quick presses, especially when engaging the recording key with the play key. Please read this statement as "use gentle but brisk presses, especially when engaging the recording key with the play key"
When typing the note, the word "brisk" skipped my mind.
Thanks once again. I will definitely keep this in mind as that's a big concern in piano keys over push button ones which are relatively safer.
For me the Deck will be used mainly for playing and not recording. So am a bit safe on that front
greenhorn
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jay, you worry too much. Just don't leave the mechanism in play mode with the power turned off.
Even then, rubber pinch rollers are just 10 Rs. But then there is the question of replacing them for you
Even then, rubber pinch rollers are just 10 Rs. But then there is the question of replacing them for you
sarith
Active Member
jay, you worry too much. Just don't leave the mechanism in play mode with the power turned off.
Even then, rubber pinch rollers are just 10 Rs. But then there is the question of replacing them for you
ThanksAm not that technically equipped.
reubensm
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actually, as you will experience after using your deck for some time, one can actually use the recording feature to create compilations of your own. pretty convenient and also, nostalgic.
Yes surely will do. Actually am a big fan of vinyls and listen to and record from that only. But will do.
Do u mean to say CS - M02 has a Glass Head? I doubt
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