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Press Play and Rewind at the same time?

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Posted on August 20, 2015 at 13:42:34
Garg0yle
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 When I was a kid the music teacher would come to class once a week.
When she was queuing up songs on her ghetto blaster, she would for example press play and fast forward at the same time. The tape deck would then skip ahead and then play at the beginning of the next song.
This worked with recorded tapes and purchased tapes.

Back then I guess I was already an audio dweeb as I was fascinated by this technology. (Only one in my class remotely interested I might add.)

For my 8th birthday I was lucky enough to receive a Sony CFS-450 with the "3D Super Woofer".
Despite be advised not to do this "trick" by my Dad, I did and within a few months the tape deck broke.

Back in the '80s it took forever to get something like that fixed. I remember asking ol Dad everyday when he got home from work if it was fixed yet.

Anyhow so to this day I wonder if this was an intentional feature designed into tape decks?
The Music teacher had that tape deck for I bet 10 years, doing the two button trick daily in her classes.
My Sony would do this trick, but obviously was playing and rewinding at the same time as it broke a belt.

Did anybody else do this?



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"Cue/Review" Feature...., posted on August 20, 2015 at 15:02:57
Todd Krieger
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 I would only do this if the tape deck has the "cue/review" feature. Explicitly stated in the user manual. Much more likely to be a feature in a component tape deck than in a boombox.

 

RE: "Cue/Review" Feature...., posted on August 20, 2015 at 16:45:04
Garg0yle
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 I see.

It was a very useful feature. Suppose it was the predecessor of the "next" button.
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RE: "Cue/Review" Feature...., posted on August 20, 2015 at 17:50:58
Tony Lauck
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 I never had the benefit of these as a kid. I started out with a wire recorder. Here the hope was that the wire wouldn't break and when it did that the necessary knot would hold without too much of a sonic disruption or worse, massive tangle.


Tony Lauck

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RE: "Cue/Review" Feature...., posted on August 20, 2015 at 18:56:08
Garg0yle
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 Oh well, a Minifon was four months salary in the forties.
Quite a piece of technology relative to the decade.

Did you have the stealthy watch with yours?





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RE: "Cue/Review" Feature...., posted on August 20, 2015 at 20:32:45
Todd Krieger
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 I've heard of a wire recorder, but have never seen one.....

I guess it went the way of the Dodo because it can't do stereo.......

 

RE: "Cue/Review" Feature...., posted on August 21, 2015 at 07:14:44
Tony Lauck
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 The Webcore machine I had had been my grandfather's. He used it for dictation. Recordings were OK for voice, but there were little or no high frequencies and there was horrible wow and flutter due to mistacking of wire on the rotating drum. A worse idea than 8 track...


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RE: Press Play and Rewind at the same time?, posted on August 21, 2015 at 12:52:50
fantja
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 I remember that 3D super woofer.

 

RE: Press Play and Rewind at the same time?, posted on August 23, 2015 at 07:52:10
Garg0yle
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 Yes, there were at least two models that I know of.

Here is a picture of the one I had.
The other one was black and had a woofer on the front instead of the rear like mine.

FR was 150Hz-10kHz, 2.3w per channel, not sure how many watts the SUPER WOOFER used.

It was a fun unit, kinda unique in it's styling. I might find a clean one off eBay one day for sentimental reasons.









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