Yes, the price was a bit high. But the problems he mentioned were routine service things that I would have done anyway. In the condition it actually was it was worth maybe $20 for parts. BTW, you did notice that it is a battery operated Hi-Fi stereo recorder? This was about the first affordable one ($500) that was made. Later there were several, but the Marantz (later version of mine) and Sony were the only ones that were common. I live in a tourist/university town, that means almost anything that is old here is in an overpriced antique store, or torn up by the students who got hold of it first. Of course one still can run into bargains now and then. My Technics turntable was free, the cassette deck, also Technics, in my stack cost me $5.
That leaves eBay when you want something in particular. The problem comes when you can not trust the seller's description. Unfortunately I am finding that to be more and more the case. -graywolf Markus Maurer wrote: > Hi Graywolf > I looked it up on Ebay and it is a lovely piece from a famous brand . > The price seems a little bit on the high side for a non flawless item for me > nut that is true for a lot of international autction sales. > Don't you have flea markets and second hand stores where you live where you > getter even better deals? > > I got a nearly unused Philips HiFi Recorder N2521 for $10 last year in > perfect condition:-) > http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/philips_hifi_cassettendeck_n2521.html > > greetings > Markus > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > graywolf > Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 3:22 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: OT. mikes and Mac's > > > Ah ha! You will find you need a preamp for that mike. I tried with my > Thinkpad and you only get good volume with the mic right up against your > face. Preamps seem to run about $50, while you can get a "Behringer > Xenyx 802" mixer board for $60 on the web. It has the preamps plus a > bunch of other features built in. I am using a couple of Nady SP-4c > mikes that were dirt cheap ($25 for the pair with shipping) from > Amazon.com with cables. They are suprisingly robust, similar to the > Shure SM58 for 1/10th the price. (However, I would rather have omni's > for field use so if anyone has a couple of EV635A's or AT802's laying > about they would like to sell cheap, please let me know) I will probably > get the 1202 mixer for use with the laptop, and with my new old recorder. > > Which gives me the chance to mention (brag about) the latest addition to > my retro-audio system. Yesterday the "Superscope by Marantz CD-330 > Professional Portable Cassette Recorder" (I run out of breath just > typing all that) I bought off eBay (item 110084712208) a couple of weeks > ago finally arrived. Had a lot more issues than the seller mentioned, > but I have it working about 80-90% now. A couple of more days and I hope > I will have it working just about like new (or will have decided it is > junk). > > --graywolf > > > David J Brooks wrote: >> I'll need to record a short demo for my proposed radio showsoon, and i >> fiqure it would probably be done on the ibook and garage band and or >> itunes which ever works best i suppose.:-) >> >> I'll just runn the musi from itunes, but what about a mike. I'm >> quessing it would have to be a usb one or pluged into an adaptor and >> into a spot on the computer.?? >> >> Also, i'm not apposed to doing it on my PC if the mike issue can be >> addressed and if there is a program to do such. >> >> Dave >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
