Best Deck for RECORDING. What's your favourite for recording music?

Status
Not open for further replies.
Cpl-Chronic

Cpl-Chronic

Member (SA)
Heyya, =)

I recently got a distressed GF-777Z from an eBay member & restored it with new speakers, dead-mat & acousti-fill dampening material. When I had the decks realigned & speed adjusted I tried some tapes for both playback & record & the RECORD deck is amazing. It may not break records for high frequency reproduction but to my ears the recorded tape was very even, dead-on correct speed & good stereo imaging & clarity, overall with plenty of bass & treble in normal position.

Can anyone else back me up on that? I'm really loving my Sharp right now.

Cheers,
Cpl
 
hollyrockets

hollyrockets

Member (SA)
This subject is interesting. I hope a LOT of people weigh in. Are JVC decks good? I probably shouldn't admit it, but I don't play tapes most of the time, because I don't want to add wear to the decks and my tapes are so old and tired.
 
Ken

Ken

Member (SA)
hollyrockets said:
This subject is interesting. I hope a LOT of people weigh in. Are JVC decks good? I probably shouldn't admit it, but I don't play tapes most of the time, because I don't want to add wear to the decks and my tapes are so old and tired.
Click to expand...
:agree: :blush: :blush: :blush:
 
baddboybill

baddboybill

Boomus Fidelis
I've heard JVC PC55 is best for recording but honestly the most fun deck to record on is Sharp VZ2000 using an album to record to tape ;-)


Bad Boy Bill
 
Ken

Ken

Member (SA)
Brutus442 said:
JVC PC-55 or 550. Those decks are better than some home HI-FI decks
Click to expand...
redbenjoe said:
this man knows knows his decks = :agree:
Click to expand...
Would you include their "little bro," the PC 5? It's one of my heaviest boxes and I have always wondered if it shared a deck with it's "big bros."
 
Beosystem10

Beosystem10

Member (SA)
I'm in danger of compounding a cliché here but JVC really knew their game. I've heard my PC11 through a pair of PC55 speakers and it enjoyed itself as much as I did!
PC11 is only let down by thae stock speakers not having that overblown thumping that some people believe is how bass should sound (yeah, me included :blush: but sometimes tuneful is better than in yer face) but its deck is easily the better of most as it comes with Dolby B and C (SANRS was licensed to T. "Al" Arai from Dolby labs and rebranded, hence some JVCs' carrying both logos), has superb speed stability and is easily the most tolerant deck in any portable to older, tighter or more worn tapes. The Technics SAC05L is very good, but can't cope with any tape that's less than perfect and has an appetite for clutches, surface mount tags on all of its many boards and is typically Technics in that everything you most often need to be working on is buried as deep as it's possible to bury it. It records well but it's an awkward wee badstart to mend.

Even the mechanically switched deck in JVC's entry level 656 has clearly had its development budget spent in the right places as they tend to be more reliable than anything of similar age and even the rough ones usually play at the right speed, sound good and again can manage worn tapes without sounding like they're at the bottom of the sea. I've had a couple of cheap examples from FridayAd recently and both played and recorded well before I'd so much as degaussed their heads, they're the boombox world's equivalent of the Volvo B18 engine!

So for recording since that's what this is about; JVCs tend to be best in each of the market sectors they represented with every one of theirs punching well above its weight. I believe that if you took the deck from any of the early '80s P Combos it would stand head and shoulders above the likes of the much-respected Aiwa ADF-410 and it would take a much more costly standalone deck to match the quality of recordings made on thae JVC products.
The only portable one I have heard or worked with that matches JVC recording quality is the deck in Hacker's RPC1 as also used in their music centres. But it darned well ought to have some quality to it as it was supplied by Nakamichi.
B&O are good but not as good as the marketroid borst implied and, if you don't need the slim styling or the quirky controls, the decks from their portables could also be found in Hitachi boomboxes of the period. Only the audio quality set the Danish maker's kit above the supplying company's equivalent products and then not by very much.

JVC for the win! :yes:
 
redbenjoe

redbenjoe

I Am Legend
Kenpat said:
Oh, snap. Still need a 55 or a 550, then. Nothing new there. :lol:
Click to expand...
ken -- i might have an extra 550 --
its BELOW BEATER = cant be photographed or even looked at :thumbsdown: :lol:

it sure works and sounds great tho --

worse part.......
its sooooooooo heavy
freight from florida to way up there // out there could be $ 90 or even more-
plus $$ for the box

if you cant find a good one -- closer to you ..we can do something.in a few months
 
BoomboxLover48

BoomboxLover48

Boomus Fidelis
baddboybill said:
I've heard JVC PC55 is best for recording but honestly the most fun deck to record on is Sharp VZ2000 using an album to record to tape ;-)


Bad Boy Bill
Click to expand...
That is good information Bill! :yes:
I never tried that on my VZ2000.
 
baddboybill

baddboybill

Boomus Fidelis
That is good information Bill! :yes:
I never tried that on my VZ2000.


Yeah when we were making the traveling tape I had to choose 2 songs and I chose my VZ2000 and Telefunken to put it on tape :-D


Bad Boy Bill
 
womble71

womble71

Member (SA)
Yeah' Pc-55/550 for the win then! :clap: I don't own one so all my recording is done on Panasonic rx-dt680 and always sounds balanced and clean on other decks.
 
skippy1969

skippy1969

Boomus Fidelis
I think the JVC PC55/550 has the best deck that I've ever used for recording.
My Sansui CP7 does a awesome job too…….
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top Bottom