The worst sounding cassette recorder ever?

This Emerson CRC-98D cassette recorder looks nice and feels well-built, but its recording quality is extremely poor. This might be due to the lack of any functional bias, either AC or DC. Playback quality is still pretty good, though.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• lq34+hq18
• emerson
• crc98d
• crc-98d
• cassette
• tape
• recorder
• recording
• deck
• playback
• player
• 1980s
• '80s
• shoebox
• ac
• dc
• bias
• condenser
• dynamic
• microphone

[jebi789]

i want it to hear sound and not your bla bala bal

[vwestlife]

@jebi789 Luckily for you, my videos come with a full 30-day money-back guarantee!

[DrCassette]

It seems like this unit contains bad capacitors, but you should also control the internal record/play switch. If those switches are oxydized or dirty, the recordings also sound bad. Maybe the switch in your recorder is so bad that it es not able to switch on the bias. Did you used a normal position cassette?

[vwestlife]

I do have to push rather hard on the record button to get it to lock down, so maybe the internal switch is part of the problem.

[retrochad]

I would go looking for bad capacitors...using an ESR meter would be good. It is old enough now that caps may likely start to go bad.

[vwestlife]

It also has a lot of AC hum, especially when starting or stopping the motor. So yes, it likely has bad caps.

[batterymaker]

It sounds like that because.....well....it's an Emerson. They were always cheap, even back when they made tube radios in the thirties and forties....

[bob7872]

Reminds me of my 1st one from Radio Shack!!

[piejaist]

The worst cassette recorders ever are new chinese shits such as boomboxes, which record one big noise and very dirty sound, don't have a mic or input jack, damages few days or months after buying, and CD makes some noise like a tape.

[MrMinimusss]

sound begins at 1:37 thunbs up to show this every one who clicked only on the video to hear the bad sound quality

[Ilovewashers]

Now I own a Panasonic Am/Fm and tape recorder with a 5 band equalizer and has a built in condensor microphone. The only noises that get's into my recordings are occasional rattles. The model is RX-CS700.

[Ilovewashers]

I'm an amateur solo musician who has never done a gig and I love cassette players. I bought this "Realistic" tape player from the local thrift store $2.50 and boy was it crap it kept making ticking noises, and when I recorded my music the damn ticking noises would get caught in the recordings and they would sound flat.

[TheHackWhite]

in one of your videos blowing up speakers and more

you blew that same microphone

[TheHackWhite]

in one of your videos: blowing up speakers and more

you blow up that same microphone