TEAC A-150 Worth keeping?

[Dracon]

Hello Folks,

Just got back from being away for two years (No I wasn't in prison or anything like that - although it did feel that way sometimes).

Anyway, two years ago I bought a TEAC A-150 from a thrift store for $10.00. This is a cassette recorder/player with RCA jacks in the rear. Now I am moving and I do not know if I should just junk it or pack it up and move it (3,000 miles).

I've looked for reviews on line, and in this forum but to no avail. I have seen reviews about the TEAC 3 and the TEAC 3X (semi pro audio for the day supposedly).

I have found plenty of manuals out there for the TEAC A-150 but not a single one for sale. There are other models out there for sale (similar but not the same one).

I never owned this type of equipment back in the day and I suppose I could plug it in and try out (if I still had some tapes to play on it) but I bought it to transfer some tape material to Digital for my wife. I really don't want to get rid of it but I don't want to pay to transport it across the U.S. simply to chuck it out when I get to the East.

If anyone has any clue as to quality I would greatly appreciate some feedback.

Thanks!

 

[kid klash]

Wow - that's an oldy. I had an A-160, that I bought sometime in the 70's (I think). It was a very good cassette recorder for that era.

Heck, I'd test out your A-150, and if it works (records, plays, all the controls work properly) I'd pack it up and keep it. You never know when you'll want (or need) to transfer a cassette.

I have a couple of old reel-toreel decks that I've kept too. Glad I did - a friend came across some reel-to-reel "letters" that he sent to his parents while he was serving in the Viet Nam "conflict", and asked me to transfer them to CD for him. Glad I could, as they were very interesting to listen to... you could hear all kinds of firefights and explosions in the background on some of them.