Sears vintage cassette recorder, DC bias Again

[CassetteRookie]

Alot of backround noise.

[gmodderr]

Good sound for the speakers size, but it sounds horrible on loudest.

[gmodderr]

i mean the last song

[windoes98se]

wow, you sound sad when you say dc bias

[randomforum]

It is sad.

[ESmithStringSlinger]

My estimation is that the recorder is from 1980.

[ESmithStringSlinger]

Wow! Today,I attended an estate sale and bought the exact same Sears 2158 cassette recorder.However,W/O box.With some oiling I brought it back to life.Alot of bang for one dollar! Thanks for the vid!

[zombiehellmonkey]

It truly is a beautiful machine.

[spatsbear2]

MINT... IN THE BOX!

Nice one.

[itscool1968]

ricky its actualy made for sears by panasonic:)

[CassetteMaster]

I think by Sanyo.

[W2QYVkz789]

I've got a Telephone answering machine and it like that.

[me748]

nice machine. rare song too, ELO - all over the world.

[bluenazz]

Ricky, ELO were a Sony act so you shouldn't have problems with WMG. Do people actually collect different brands and types of cassette? I think that the Maxell LN was their cheapest grade of tape.

[CassetteMaster]

That's good to know. I wasn't sure, and did that just in case. I guess some people do collect tapes, as I remember on the internet something called "Cassette Jam '05", which was a set of pictures all hundreds of different tapes including many European ones like BASF.

[bluenazz]

The Cassette Jam site appears to be 404 Not Found now. I know that I bought my first cassette, a BASF, in 1971. Wish that I still had it because it came in a protective gray plastic case exactly like a BASF reel to reel.

[coolbluelights]

gotta love NIB tape recorders!

[wildbilltexas]

I bought a lot of Maxell LN tapes back in the early 80's. They were excellent tape for radio recording.

[Graaaainy]

nice. i found something funny today can i show it to you? ha

[wilkes85]

Cool, original box and everything! awesome.

Cool old recording on that vintage Maxell tape too!

What's the strangest thing you ever found on an old tape? You should make a video of all the crazy cool things you found.

[CassetteMaster]

I found a recording, from what I believe, a teenage girl who had a baby, talking to her mom over the phone with an answering machine I got.

[vwestlife]

I've also found some great stuff on answering machine tapes. The quality on an old AT&T machine was surprisingly good -- maybe even AC bias.

[CassetteMaster]

Woah! I saw one at a flea market, but didn't get it, as it had bad belts. Maybe I should get it!

[jbrunsonjr]

You were a robe and pipe away from looking like hugh hefner in that opening clip in the chair. lol

[shiftael]

the 2nd song sounds like ELO possibly, but I can't say for certain :(

I vaguely remember those Maxell cassettes, too, btw.

[MarkPMus]

The song is called "All Over The World", by, you're right, ELO.

[BrooklynMouseReturns]

"FastphillyCorvette", would love this song, he is a big ELO fan.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Pretty neat new in the box.

[ForgetfulCollector]

I've got that same cassette! (and you've mentioned that you have some). Very cool, even though the DC bias is, well, DC bias. It's still nice that it's mint-in-the-box!

[Vinylrecordsneverdie]

Oh yeah, Maxell cassette was made around 1979-1982 so that machine is probably from that time period too.

[BrooklynMouseReturns]

I have the same one like that. It's a Maxell LN cassette from about 1979 through 1982. I have only one, but I used to have a lot of Maxell LN tapes many years ago, but I got rid of it. All of these tapes has R&B/soul music recorded off the radio from WBLS and 98.7 Kiss-FM. Dig that Maxell LN tape.

[Vinylrecordsneverdie]

I have that cassette too, but itz 120mins. It has songs recorded off music choice from the Comcast digital cable that I recorded back in 2003.

[Vinylrecordsneverdie]

Wow, Mint in the Box! Very nice machine eventhough itz DC bias! I love that song u recorded off the radio and it comes out good too. I even have it on LP too. The song is "Jamie" by Ray Parker Jr (The same guy who sang "Ghostbusters").

[BrooklynMouseReturns]

Yep! I have that song "Jamie" by Ray Parker Jr. on an original 45, the flipside is "Christmas Time Is Here". I did a vid of that song "Jamie" on my other channel "MagcialWorldofMusic" a few months ago.

[IAmNotAFunguy]

First to comment!

[CassetteMaster]

So what are you thoughts on the machine?

[IAmNotAFunguy]

It should be AC Bias!