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charles_b
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Hi there!
Just got an 122 MKIII cassette deck. It looks great and seems to be almost unused.
However, playing back my old tapes with THAT machine sound dull and without higher frequencies.
So I tried to calibarte the machine to my TDK SA tapes. Already with the low freq I could not get a maximum reading of more than -5dB. There was no way to go beyond 0 dB.
With the 10-kHz-tone I got no signal at all.
Then, I hocked up my pc soundcard to the input and recorded lower and higher frequencies in order to rule out that the internal oscillator is broke.
The result is, that the 10-kHz-Signal (which is clearly audible before recording) is at least -20db weaker in the tape-monitor-position (no reading on the VU-Meter).
Could it be that the aszimuth is totally misaligned?
In that case, how do I reach the three screews? I can see them from the top but I would have to take apart the cassette loading mechanism from the first view.
Just got an 122 MKIII cassette deck. It looks great and seems to be almost unused.
However, playing back my old tapes with THAT machine sound dull and without higher frequencies.
So I tried to calibarte the machine to my TDK SA tapes. Already with the low freq I could not get a maximum reading of more than -5dB. There was no way to go beyond 0 dB.
With the 10-kHz-tone I got no signal at all.
Then, I hocked up my pc soundcard to the input and recorded lower and higher frequencies in order to rule out that the internal oscillator is broke.
The result is, that the 10-kHz-Signal (which is clearly audible before recording) is at least -20db weaker in the tape-monitor-position (no reading on the VU-Meter).
Could it be that the aszimuth is totally misaligned?
In that case, how do I reach the three screews? I can see them from the top but I would have to take apart the cassette loading mechanism from the first view.