Today I show my recently restored Panasonic RX-DT9. This is known as the probably best boombox which Panasonic ever produced. It overrules in my opinion also the Top Cobras RX-DT95/DT75.
And beside Panasonic only Aiwa with its “Strasser” CSD-SR8/SR80 had Dolby C in a 1-piece boombox.
I received the DT9 already several months ago and had to struggle with a lot of problems. First was, that the CD could play only when the device was tilted. I asked for help in different forums and got the one tip that solved it – just a drop of oil to the bearing of the spindle motor.
Then I replaced the belts in the cassette mechanisms. Unfortunately the two decks worked then only for a short time as both idler gear wheels broke. Luckily on ebay I found a vendor from Poland who offers good replacement gears. Furthermore I had to replace several tip switches.
As the DT-9 receives only the Japanese FM band from 76…90MHz, I built in an FM converter, so that most of European FM stations can be received.
Last but not least I replaced the burned display bulbs with LED’s and added illumination to tape decks and CD drive.
Now it runs again without problems.
Here a short video:
And beside Panasonic only Aiwa with its “Strasser” CSD-SR8/SR80 had Dolby C in a 1-piece boombox.
I received the DT9 already several months ago and had to struggle with a lot of problems. First was, that the CD could play only when the device was tilted. I asked for help in different forums and got the one tip that solved it – just a drop of oil to the bearing of the spindle motor.
Then I replaced the belts in the cassette mechanisms. Unfortunately the two decks worked then only for a short time as both idler gear wheels broke. Luckily on ebay I found a vendor from Poland who offers good replacement gears. Furthermore I had to replace several tip switches.
As the DT-9 receives only the Japanese FM band from 76…90MHz, I built in an FM converter, so that most of European FM stations can be received.
Last but not least I replaced the burned display bulbs with LED’s and added illumination to tape decks and CD drive.
Now it runs again without problems.
Here a short video:
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