I know you're a big George Benson fan, I still have his "On Broadway" and "Breezin" albums, love the 70's music. I was a teenager in the 70's, graduated from high school in 79, there will never be a decade like the 70's great find 12volts !!
I have seen him love twice. First time in 76. Got front row seats in the orchestra pit. My dad took me as I was only 13. George was larger than life standing 10 feet from me. It was a fantastic show. Incredible player. Played octane, gone, take5, breezin. On Broadway , 6 to 4 ect. Opening act was Tom Scott and it was every bit as good. As soon as the lights went down everyone sparked up the wacky tobaco. Was high as a kite from all the second hand smoke.
My first CD player was a Magnavox. 1989.(had a simple IR remote) I was late into the game. But always am. It worked last time I tried it. Interesting to see those vintage players from the early 80's. Edit: regulator was as loose as a goose in a noos...
This may sound weird, but back in the day, my parents owned a Pioneer 6-disc Magazine style changer from 1989 till about 2006, and that unit had no trouble playing CD-Rs.
Surprised the 100 sound effects disc didn't use subtracks, 99 Tracks+99 Subtracks are supported by red book audio CDs. My old Sanyo player CP-08 can display subtracks, though the only audio CD I ever came across that used them was "Full Moon Fever" by Tom Petty between Track 5 and 6 is Track 5.1 that plays a message about pausing in fairness to people who have to turn over the LP or cassette.
I sort of still use CDs. I went to a dollar store in the next town over from me and they have discounted CDs. I bought all the good ones and the crappy ones are still there. I rip them to digital and then the MP3s go on my phone. 20:27 one of those baby cooing sounds was used in an aliyah song back in the 90s
The guy below who stated discs were a joke has got his screws on loose. I own dvds and is a much better way to view old tv and movies. Dvds contain additional bonus material you cant find on streaming services or satellite platforms. You cant go wrong with physical media.
600+ cd's for 50$ is a great deal. But, I can better it!!! Was at a auction about 4 years ago, and got 500+ DVD's for $6. Less than 5% was material I didn't like. Big win for me, as the lot did have a reserve that the auctioneer didn't notice.
My local Wal-Mart is trying to kill off the CD. They are literally stocking overpriced vinyl. However, the Wal-Mart 20 miles south in Fresno still stocks a few. Did a price compare with a Fleetwood Mac Rumors CD. The CD was $7.00, and the vinyl was $29.96. Know someone who purchased the vinyl and side 2 was not even centered properly. The tone arm swayed in and out during playback causing a slight wow and flutter. Why people prefer vinyl over CD is a mystery to me.
Yes i know. Sheeple as a friend calls them. I said good riddance to vinyl 40 years ago. Still have my old vinyls but have not bought and new and will not buy any new.
I had a Technics SADA10 the volume would loose a Chanel every once in a while found the fault was the push in connection on the front sprayed it and it was good to go.
I just recently got a Panasonic 5 disk charger from 1993 and I got It for $9. the player read a disk and seemed to be playing the CD just fine. I will hook it up to my main stereo system that currently has a Scott CD player from 1988. The Scott is a very good player as it will read CD-R and if it skips on a stamped disc you now your disk is hosed. I got the Scott $4 with sticker saying as is. That made me assume it had a problem but for that price I thought I'll take a chance. After I got it home I put a CD in the Scott and it worked fine. I did grease the rails and do some maintenance to it but I didn't change the disc tray belt which is pretty stretched.
Sure is. I remember repairing these. There was a 1700.00 jig required to set them up. 1984 would be the time frame of this. The next year they brought out the twin digital so no focus or tracking controls. All digital.
I gotta question do you do repairs for other peoples cameras? I just got a sony ddc trv128 dunno if its gonna work but i dont know if anyshops around me repair old camcorders
I try. Not every camcorder can be economically repaired and there are no easy parts solutions as they haven't made any for close to 20 years now. When the last camcorder rolled off the line so did the last part. Contrary to what a lot of people think manufacturers did not have to continue to make parts available for service after the model production ended. They used to have to back in the '80s manufacturers had to maintain a sufficient inventory to service products for 7 years then it dropped to six then five and then just the warranty period. Around 1998 all parts manufacture stopped the day the when the model ended production and once the inventory of the parts in the chain which was closely controlled was used the production stopped. Just both cameras use the same parts head drums kiss at houses etc production of those parts continued until all camp quarter manufacturing stopped but the same thing they stopped production of the parts and once the parts of the chain were used up that spelled the end of those models. What the manufacturer did starting at around 1997 or 98 was giving a replacement equivalent replacement if something broke so for example if you had an 8 mm camera that you bought the last year that they made them and your camera broke under warranty they wouldn't give you another 8mm camera they would give you an SD based camera as a replacement. I actually know someone who fell into that situation bought a camcorder it was a mini DV right at the end of production and his camera broke and Sony gave him the replacement for it which was a DVD camcorder. I know this because he brought me all of his tapes to transfer to DVD this is going back to about 2009 somewhere in there where they stopped production of the mini DV cameras.
@@12voltvids hey so i got the camcorder everything works fine camera viewfinder light and nightshot, but the cassette ejector wont open it stays shut in place would this be able to be fixed or would it be better to try and find a new working one
I have a question... I have a GoldStar CD Player FH-532 from a full GoldStar F-532 series component set, that was still working and then one day it suddenly would play and for a few second, then skip across about 60 seconds of the track being played back. This bothered me a lot and I performed extensive cleaning inside with no results. I had it in for repair a few years after and these technicians damaged it further. I got the unit back six months later with loads of stories. First they said the gears are worn, which wasn't the case and secondly they then said that the control circuit has blown and whatnot The unit display didn't come on, so naturally I opened the unit again, only to find that they damaged the ribbon cable connecting the display to the board. I fixed this, however the player reads the discs and when I push play it just spins and spins and sometimes shows the no disc error. Maybe there is a solution to my problem and any advise will be greatly appreciated.
Typical Sony and other brand solder joints from back then. But makes for an easy fix. One of my Sony CFD-5 Boomboxes from 1985 with the inbuilt D-50 cd player had that issue on the power supply.
Just picked one of these up at goodwill for $8. It turns on, but after putting a disc in the tray, once the disc is in there the display just stays at 0:00 and pressing play does nothing. I’m hoping I can figure out how to repair
Which dac does it have? I know a lot of people seek the old phillips ones as they have a better/different sound to even some of the more modern higher bit dacs.
The tda1541 Philips is sought after by audiophools that perceive it as having better sound. I have one and it does sound different. Better? I don't think I can say it's better but different. It's not an over sample dac and it switches rapidly between the left and right channel as it's a single dac doing 2 channel deciding. What makes it sound different isn't so much the dac but the analog filter that follows it to remove the harshness of it. This one if i remember has a burr brown. Many of the newer dac were 2 - 8x oversample. These moved the quantazing noise 4 or 8x higher then the 44.1 sample frequency and thus so far away that filtering was not needed so they actually provided a truer representation. The old Philips operating at 44.1 needed the filtering which by the nature of how capacitors work caused a roll off of the sound and made it more analog tape or vinyl sounding as analog circuits all have this sound. Some high end CD players stuck a 12ax7 or 12au7 tube into the audio output to achieve the warmer analog sound as digital recording is pretty stirile. You get back what you put in and it isn't as pleasing to those used to the warm fuzzy sound of vinyl and tape. The majority that i deal with that think vinyl sounds better are the 65+ crowd that can't hear those highs anyway. I am falling into that catagory myself. I can't hear much above 15khz these days and it isn't coming back. If I want to drive my son nuts i just fire up the induction cook top. That drives him absolutely crazy, i don't hear a thing 😅
@12voltvids is the filtering you speak of similar to the class d output filters. Low pass filters. And the new dacs like the some of the later class ds that dont need filtering as they oscillate at much higher frequancy?
i dont know if you will see this but someone recommended me your channel cause you might be able to help me, i recently picked up a Mitsubishi HS-U445 VCR for free off of facebook marketplace, it works great with a nice clear picture etc but it has one issue, if a tape is at the end and needs to be rewound, the vcr will not play it, rewind it or fast forward the vhs, if the tape is at the very start it works fine no issues, do you have any ideas?
@@12voltvids please excuse me as i am more used to working on computers and game consoles, is that the round black rubber thing? if so it looks fine no issue with it
@@12voltvids it took me a bit but i found it and it looks fine, my vcr has a reset button on it and i managed to play and rewind two tapes after resetting it, but after that i couldnt get it to do it again, i cant find a service manual for my exxact model but i looked at one for the hs-u449 which i think has the same innards as mine and it mentions an eeprom could this be on its way out and need to be replaced?
Yep definitely wave soldered. You can see the DIP and the direction arrow silk screened on the top of the board at the right side near where all the other logos are.
Hablas mucho en inglés y tienes seguidores en España podías dejar subtitulo en español pero no lo haces Yo no hablo tú idioma inglés te respeto pero algunos queremos saber
@@12voltvids Parts... Whole VCRs made by Hitachi and Samsung, marketed as Sony. Have you ever seen a color Sony TV with in-line tube instead of Trinitron? I did! It was on the street smashed to pieces, and it had a 21" Toshiba in-line tube in it and Toshiba chassis. It looked to be a mid '80s set, as the tube had the old Toshiba logo on it. Maybe Sony wanted a budget model that they couldn't do with their Trinitron tube. I made photos of it, but it was in ~2008, so it is unlikely to find those blurry 640x480 photos that I made with my Nokia 6070... Also when they gave up Betamax, their first VHS VCRs were rebadged Hitachis I think. And when they did not want to invest anything into VHS VCR development anymore, since around 1999-2000, they started to rebadge Samsung VCRs. Even their time-lapse VCRs were rebadged, but those were already rebadged even in the mid '90s. I have Sony time lapse VCRs with Sanyo internals, and IIRC with JVC internals, too. The Sanyo-made one is a real work horse, with ball bearings for the capstan, something I have never seen before in a VHS transport.
Another good find to save from the scrap. If more people learned to fix things we would reduce the amount of waste in landfills.
Unfortunally most of the new stuff (bluetooth speaker, av receiver) is build like crap and can't really be repaired.
And most people like to buy new things, even knowing how crap they are.
My 15 year old daughter is getting into CDs. All of her favorite artists have to be CD now. Fun stuff.
Single disc players are getting hard to find these days.
Really?
I know you're a big George Benson fan, I still have his "On Broadway" and "Breezin" albums, love the 70's music. I was a teenager in the 70's, graduated from high school in 79, there will never be a decade like the 70's great find 12volts !!
I have seen him love twice. First time in 76. Got front row seats in the orchestra pit. My dad took me as I was only 13. George was larger than life standing 10 feet from me. It was a fantastic show. Incredible player. Played octane, gone, take5, breezin. On Broadway , 6 to 4 ect. Opening act was Tom Scott and it was every bit as good. As soon as the lights went down everyone sparked up the wacky tobaco. Was high as a kite from all the second hand smoke.
My first CD player was a Magnavox. 1989.(had a simple IR remote) I was late into the game. But always am. It worked last time I tried it.
Interesting to see those vintage players from the early 80's.
Edit: regulator was as loose as a goose in a noos...
Still buy CDs. I even started a small Sony Discman collection to mess about with, I love them that much.
I still record them.
@@12voltvidsi picked up a bluray recorder from japan for tv no chance to test it yet
I'm surprised that regulator didn't over volt the electronics, a crack around the ground pin would not be good.
This may sound weird, but back in the day, my parents owned a Pioneer 6-disc Magazine style changer from 1989 till about 2006, and that unit had no trouble playing CD-Rs.
Cdr was around by that time and CD players worked with them. Just some early ones had trouble. Cdrw was different.
Surprised the 100 sound effects disc didn't use subtracks, 99 Tracks+99 Subtracks are supported by red book audio CDs. My old Sanyo player CP-08 can display subtracks, though the only audio CD I ever came across that used them was "Full Moon Fever" by Tom Petty between Track 5 and 6 is Track 5.1 that plays a message about pausing in fairness to people who have to turn over the LP or cassette.
It did for track 100. Track 99 sub track 2
I sort of still use CDs. I went to a dollar store in the next town over from me and they have discounted CDs. I bought all the good ones and the crappy ones are still there. I rip them to digital and then the MP3s go on my phone.
20:27 one of those baby cooing sounds was used in an aliyah song back in the 90s
The guy below who stated discs were a joke has got his screws on loose. I own dvds and is a much better way to view old tv and movies. Dvds contain additional bonus material you cant find on streaming services or satellite platforms. You cant go wrong with physical media.
My Sony D-50 plays CD-R discs all day.
My old cdp40 did too
Took my Denon DVD-3800 apart today to clean the leaf switch. What a job that was !!
Had to pretty much pull every board to get the mechanism out.
Many Technics players from that aera used Philips swingarm drives. Those were very reliable as well....
600+ cd's for 50$ is a great deal. But, I can better it!!!
Was at a auction about 4 years ago, and got 500+ DVD's for $6. Less than 5% was material I didn't like. Big win for me, as the lot did have a reserve that the auctioneer didn't notice.
My local Wal-Mart is trying to kill off the CD. They are literally stocking overpriced vinyl. However, the Wal-Mart 20 miles south in Fresno still stocks a few. Did a price compare with a Fleetwood Mac Rumors CD. The CD was $7.00, and the vinyl was $29.96. Know someone who purchased the vinyl and side 2 was not even centered properly. The tone arm swayed in and out during playback causing a slight wow and flutter. Why people prefer vinyl over CD is a mystery to me.
Yes i know. Sheeple as a friend calls them. I said good riddance to vinyl 40 years ago. Still have my old vinyls but have not bought and new and will not buy any new.
I had a Technics SADA10 the volume would loose a Chanel every once in a while found the fault was the push in connection on the front sprayed it and it was good to go.
I just recently got a Panasonic 5 disk charger from 1993 and I got It for $9. the player read a disk and seemed to be playing the CD just fine. I will hook it up to my main stereo system that currently has a Scott CD player from 1988. The Scott is a very good player as it will read CD-R and if it skips on a stamped disc you now your disk is hosed. I got the Scott $4 with sticker saying as is. That made me assume it had a problem but for that price I thought I'll take a chance. After I got it home I put a CD in the Scott and it worked fine. I did grease the rails and do some maintenance to it but I didn't change the disc tray belt which is pretty stretched.
There is no way that unit is from the “early 1980s” with all those surface mount ICs on the bottom of the main board.
Sure is. I remember repairing these. There was a 1700.00 jig required to set them up. 1984 would be the time frame of this. The next year they brought out the twin digital so no focus or tracking controls. All digital.
@@12voltvids 12:05 , 12:18 The Sony RAM IC and an other has 1990 date codes.
least its saved from the bin
its a techincs badged panasonic ? (yes i no they same company) technics had a higher price tag in the uk i have a technics sl-pg520a
I gotta question do you do repairs for other peoples cameras? I just got a sony ddc trv128 dunno if its gonna work but i dont know if anyshops around me repair old camcorders
I try. Not every camcorder can be economically repaired and there are no easy parts solutions as they haven't made any for close to 20 years now. When the last camcorder rolled off the line so did the last part. Contrary to what a lot of people think manufacturers did not have to continue to make parts available for service after the model production ended. They used to have to back in the '80s manufacturers had to maintain a sufficient inventory to service products for 7 years then it dropped to six then five and then just the warranty period. Around 1998 all parts manufacture stopped the day the when the model ended production and once the inventory of the parts in the chain which was closely controlled was used the production stopped. Just both cameras use the same parts head drums kiss at houses etc production of those parts continued until all camp quarter manufacturing stopped but the same thing they stopped production of the parts and once the parts of the chain were used up that spelled the end of those models. What the manufacturer did starting at around 1997 or 98 was giving a replacement equivalent replacement if something broke so for example if you had an 8 mm camera that you bought the last year that they made them and your camera broke under warranty they wouldn't give you another 8mm camera they would give you an SD based camera as a replacement. I actually know someone who fell into that situation bought a camcorder it was a mini DV right at the end of production and his camera broke and Sony gave him the replacement for it which was a DVD camcorder. I know this because he brought me all of his tapes to transfer to DVD this is going back to about 2009 somewhere in there where they stopped production of the mini DV cameras.
@@12voltvids hey so i got the camcorder everything works fine camera viewfinder light and nightshot, but the cassette ejector wont open it stays shut in place would this be able to be fixed or would it be better to try and find a new working one
I have a question... I have a GoldStar CD Player FH-532 from a full GoldStar F-532 series component set, that was still working and then one day it suddenly would play and for a few second, then skip across about 60 seconds of the track being played back. This bothered me a lot and I performed extensive cleaning inside with no results. I had it in for repair a few years after and these technicians damaged it further. I got the unit back six months later with loads of stories. First they said the gears are worn, which wasn't the case and secondly they then said that the control circuit has blown and whatnot The unit display didn't come on, so naturally I opened the unit again, only to find that they damaged the ribbon cable connecting the display to the board. I fixed this, however the player reads the discs and when I push play it just spins and spins and sometimes shows the no disc error. Maybe there is a solution to my problem and any advise will be greatly appreciated.
Typical Sony and other brand solder joints from back then. But makes for an easy fix. One of my Sony CFD-5 Boomboxes from 1985 with the inbuilt D-50 cd player had that issue on the power supply.
Just picked one of these up at goodwill for $8. It turns on, but after putting a disc in the tray, once the disc is in there the display just stays at 0:00 and pressing play does nothing. I’m hoping I can figure out how to repair
I hear Whitney Houston music in the background. =) 16:01
There was a radio on. Big deal.
Which dac does it have? I know a lot of people seek the old phillips ones as they have a better/different sound to even some of the more modern higher bit dacs.
The tda1541 Philips is sought after by audiophools that perceive it as having better sound. I have one and it does sound different. Better? I don't think I can say it's better but different. It's not an over sample dac and it switches rapidly between the left and right channel as it's a single dac doing 2 channel deciding. What makes it sound different isn't so much the dac but the analog filter that follows it to remove the harshness of it. This one if i remember has a burr brown. Many of the newer dac were 2 - 8x oversample. These moved the quantazing noise 4 or 8x higher then the 44.1 sample frequency and thus so far away that filtering was not needed so they actually provided a truer representation. The old Philips operating at 44.1 needed the filtering which by the nature of how capacitors work caused a roll off of the sound and made it more analog tape or vinyl sounding as analog circuits all have this sound. Some high end CD players stuck a 12ax7 or 12au7 tube into the audio output to achieve the warmer analog sound as digital recording is pretty stirile. You get back what you put in and it isn't as pleasing to those used to the warm fuzzy sound of vinyl and tape.
The majority that i deal with that think vinyl sounds better are the 65+ crowd that can't hear those highs anyway. I am falling into that catagory myself. I can't hear much above 15khz these days and it isn't coming back. If I want to drive my son nuts i just fire up the induction cook top. That drives him absolutely crazy, i don't hear a thing 😅
@12voltvids is the filtering you speak of similar to the class d output filters. Low pass filters. And the new dacs like the some of the later class ds that dont need filtering as they oscillate at much higher frequancy?
@@user-uc5vr8le7y exactly
Those power switches are so easy to break.
awesome! BTW, i am not a fake viewer so YT better pony up to you.
i dont know if you will see this but someone recommended me your channel cause you might be able to help me, i recently picked up a Mitsubishi HS-U445 VCR for free off of facebook marketplace, it works great with a nice clear picture etc but it has one issue, if a tape is at the end and needs to be rewound, the vcr will not play it, rewind it or fast forward the vhs, if the tape is at the very start it works fine no issues, do you have any ideas?
How is the drive idler tire?
@@12voltvids please excuse me as i am more used to working on computers and game consoles, is that the round black rubber thing? if so it looks fine no issue with it
@@12voltvids it took me a bit but i found it and it looks fine, my vcr has a reset button on it and i managed to play and rewind two tapes after resetting it, but after that i couldnt get it to do it again, i cant find a service manual for my exxact model but i looked at one for the hs-u449 which i think has the same innards as mine and it mentions an eeprom could this be on its way out and need to be replaced?
@@luke9511 you will never find the code for the eeprom now.
@@12voltvids would it be possible to use a programmer to get whats on there and try it with a new chip?
Circular scratches are the death of every audio CD track under it.
And nobody uses vcr machines either yeh right
Think the only people who use still VCRs are ones who want to play their old tapes.
Yep definitely wave soldered. You can see the DIP and the direction arrow silk screened on the top of the board at the right side near where all the other logos are.
Hablas mucho en inglés y tienes seguidores en España podías dejar subtitulo en español pero no lo haces
Yo no hablo tú idioma inglés te respeto pero algunos queremos saber
I don't do the subtitles. CZcams does that.
Mmm
Disk were a bad idea - I still like online I don't use DVD no more
So you still are playing VHS tapes... ok then. We all moved to disc years ago.
Sony part in panasonic💀
And there are Panasonic parts in Sony.
@@12voltvids 😁😁
@@12voltvids Parts... Whole VCRs made by Hitachi and Samsung, marketed as Sony. Have you ever seen a color Sony TV with in-line tube instead of Trinitron? I did! It was on the street smashed to pieces, and it had a 21" Toshiba in-line tube in it and Toshiba chassis. It looked to be a mid '80s set, as the tube had the old Toshiba logo on it. Maybe Sony wanted a budget model that they couldn't do with their Trinitron tube. I made photos of it, but it was in ~2008, so it is unlikely to find those blurry 640x480 photos that I made with my Nokia 6070...
Also when they gave up Betamax, their first VHS VCRs were rebadged Hitachis I think. And when they did not want to invest anything into VHS VCR development anymore, since around 1999-2000, they started to rebadge Samsung VCRs. Even their time-lapse VCRs were rebadged, but those were already rebadged even in the mid '90s. I have Sony time lapse VCRs with Sanyo internals, and IIRC with JVC internals, too. The Sanyo-made one is a real work horse, with ball bearings for the capstan, something I have never seen before in a VHS transport.