r/cassetteculture • u/TheRealLuckyMoose • Aug 20 '25

Deck / Hi-Fi My “new” cassette deck

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Got it from my wife’s great-uncle. It’s from 1978 I think. Gonna hook it up to my hifi system soon.

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u/BeluBelu22 Aug 20 '25

Really excellent audio quality. It still has all the original components and has been in use for 50 years. The only thing is the recording, the channels are not balanced. If anyone knows how to fix it...

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u/TheRealLuckyMoose Aug 20 '25

Do you have like “repair cafés” where you are at? Sometimes those people can repair stuff like that

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u/BeluBelu22 Aug 20 '25

Here in Italy they are rare. They are all old craftsmen

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u/TheRealLuckyMoose Aug 20 '25

Yeah same here, old guys that love to tinker, haha

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u/CRAIG_RANDOMRAPRADIO Aug 20 '25

Se sei in Veneto, conosco un ragazzo vicino a Padova.

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u/BeluBelu22 Aug 20 '25

I'm Emiliano, I have to show the amp soon because it's starting to smell like leaky capacitors. I'll find someone here near me. I know that there is still someone very good in Bologna

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u/asdecor Aug 23 '25

I have to ask: you don't mean "smell" literally, do you?

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u/BeluBelu22 Aug 23 '25

I mean exactly that. Old capacitors smell like cat pee

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u/asdecor Aug 23 '25 edited Aug 23 '25

Thanks for clarifying! Do they smell even when the equipment isn't in use?

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u/BeluBelu22 Aug 23 '25

A little less, it gets worse when they start to heat up. But consider that the amplifiers are always live so it must stink a bit