Vintage Sanyo RD 5030 Cassette Deck

[Blueblur444]

I have one of these too, got it on Friday from a thrift store for $10. I uploaded a video if anyone's interested. Fantastic quality, to be honest I wasn't expecting all that much from a Sanyo, but it's great! One of the highest quality players i've ever owned, and that's quite a few.

[MegaMonkey39]

I have the same exact unit. Found it at a thrift store yesterday.Cost me only $4.99 + tax.

I love it! They don't make them like this anymore. The quality is superb. I have several decks(a dozen or so), and this is one of my favorites. Great video!

[punkrockpub]

This is EXACTLY the same make & model I had when I was a teenager back in 79-80!!!! I'd love to get another unit identical to this to help rebuild my original 1st stereo system!!!! Many thanks for sharing this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

[buretehudesi]

got the same one. suprized me with recording qualyty.

[verastaki]

Why do people keep saying a tape hisses when its really not the tape that hisses. Next time try playing a deck without inserting a tape in it and you'll hear the same noise produced by the deck itself and not the tape.Another problem is most and latest low end tape players now use a magnet to erase a tape instead of a erase head. Causing it to record that harsh hissing noise from the erase magnet itself. I use decks that dont produce hissing sound and my tapes sound loud and clear.

[verastaki]

Compact cassette is the best format ever invented for music storage. They last for generations. And they came out with so many unique styles and designs over the years. I still use this format today on a daily basis. I got this nice loud sound system that I bought for my truck and the tape sounds amazing on it. I can fully function and program it with a remote.And it Sounds much better than a freaking CD.

[Acadianiste]

Cassette is the way, sturdy, personnal, soulfull.

[Trance88]

Yeah, It's just getting hard to find another good deck. I can't make good recordings with this unit anymore. The high frequencies all come out distorted. It might need new capacitors or something.

[tomil2002]

Super machine

[Trance88]

Well, actually it's not running as well now as it did in this video.

[tomil2002]

I like old audio

[AnalogueJosh]

I see your using a new TDK D tape :)

[prokid2000]

nice deck

love trance music too

[timtimtim1888]

cassette playing has annoyin hissing sound

[Acadianiste]

not good reccordings,

[vieuxson]

very nice cassette deck i put a video on you tube of my telefunken tc 750 high com don t used it for a long time and the sound is awesome

[ddl312]

Great deck, gotta love the VU meters

[ddl312]

Forgot to ask you, are you useing your Relistic MC-1200'S in this video?

[Trance88]

No, I had it hooked up to a different stereo at the time of this video. It is now though.

[CassetteMaster]

Awesome cassette deck! Neat VU mteres, very good sound, cool song!

[speedyc395]

Sweet cassette deck :)

I love the orange lit VU meters!!!

[Trance88]

Yup! Those are so cool!! That was a big surprise when I first plugged it in.

[JBlair1982]

I also like those VU meters on those cassette decks. It's too bad that cassette decks are really hard to find these days. :-(

[Trance88]

They had about 7 cassette decks at the goodwill I got this at.

[damusician]

nice deck! hope you get the auto stop working someday.

[Trance88]

I'm thinking the auto stop doesn't work because the belts aren't strong enough to activate it.

[damusician]

if i were you, i'll replace all the belts.

[Trance88]

any idea where to get belts?

[vinylman86]

ebay or turntableneedles(dot)com

[Trance88]

Wooo! I just got the auto stop to work! I replaced the auto stop belt with a rubber band and it works great!

[vinylman86]

nice!