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A friend of a friend is selling an Aiwa AD-F810 3 head cassette deck that appears to look and sound very good but i have never owned an Aiwa deck.He is selling it for $50,are Aiwa decks good cassette decks?
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I have the F910 with the remote. Both are three head, dual capstan decks with Dolby A, B and HX Pro(my favorite). The decks are really sweet from the factory, but have optical sensors that clog easily in a smoking environment. Like most of the decks from the 90's, they are black, plastic fantastic BS. They made the transport system as small and cheap as possible and everything is run by a mico-processor and IC chips. They're set up for metal and do a great job if everything is working properly. Some techs will tell ya that they are hard to set up again if they go off-my experience inside the deck doesn't lend me to agree with that, once you understand that the optical sensors have to be CLEAN. $50 for a 810 is a good price, I'd rather have the 910 however. I don't know what they bring on fleabay.
Hello
I have a Aiwa AD-F910 and a XK-S9000, and many others.
I'll talk about an AD-F910, being the 810 close in performance you
can figure out.
It is full loaded of features and conveniences: calibration, cue/review.
It sounds good but I wouldn consider it a superior quality sound cassette deck. It is, in fact, an average three head deck.
It is ugly as an elephant ass.
Take it if it is in very good condition. Otherwise, with some patience, you can find better sounding decks for 50 $
Yes. Aiwa was I believe the first manufacturer of stereo decks in Japan back in the day. Aiwa's main focus was making tape cassette decks. Some of their decks are better then others, and they knew how to make a good one. But with any company there were some bad ones too. I believe the deck you site was average.
I have an 810 and i think it is the best sounding deck I have ever owned . i paid $500 for it new back in the early 90's (and I paid $500 for a sansui in the 70's also and no comparison ). I have had many other deck's over the years but my original deck worked perfect for a very long time. It has a lot of features as mentioned and the one i picked up today has a wacky tape counter which I gather is microprocessor controlled but I can live with that . My original made great recordings , so $50 is a pretty good price I think . I have never owned a Nak so take my comments for what they are worth .
cheers
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