Prompted by our youngest becoming interested in making a 'mix tape' but not knowing what was involved. Literally... Me: "Do you have a cassette deck to use?" Them: "What's that?" I found my old tape deck in 'meh' condition at roughly 40 years of age. I hadn't used it in a very long time. It's a Denon DR-M33, from roughly 1984. It's pretty well built for a 'home' unit, it features 3 discrete heads and a dual capstan direct drive transport. It depends on a belt for the capsta

The ST70 has always had a pretty great output section but the driver could use a little more attention. From the hard to find 7199 tube...

My Cornwalls are from the early 1980s and as such their signal capacitors were over 30 years old. While they still worked ok, better...