Telefunken Magnetophon401 DC-International System(not CompactCassette!)RARE!!!!
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- Thats a nice and rare cassette format i show you here! It was built in approx. mid 60's.
Specifications:
Sound: Mono,Freq.Range:40--10000Hz
Recording: Man.rec.level control, AC-Bias
Speed: 5,08cm/s,electronic controlled brushless motor
Output power: 2.Watts
Voltage: 9.Volts DC (no built-in power supply) only optional.
It's a AC-Bias unit.
Grundig's "DC-International System" had no success in the 1960's............. The CompactCassette by Philips had finally won the "audio-cassette format war" in the 60's. Unfortunality,my telefunken here has probably a noisy germanium transistor on board and the tape drive cover is missing......
In this "Telefunken Magnetophon401" housing is "pure" Grundig C-100 technology.Only the housing is by Telefunken and it calls now:Magnetphon401.
btw: DC-International System is NOT DC-Bias ;-))))))
@clydesight Thanks!! Grundig had to have this a little later (1-2years later) as a competitive format to the Philips compact cassette placed on the market.Max Grundig wanted to bring out its own format. DC-International recorders were built only two years,then,the production of it stopped. All this,as far as i know from the i-net.
I will shot a video of this recorder again when the noise problem is fixed.
It helped the Compact Cassette to become a succes, because companies could say to Philips "When you want license fees, we take the competition"
Clearly the sound quality is very good! This could've/should've been the adopted format instead of Philips' design for audio cassettes. Even though the Philips design won out, it would most certainly have been Grundig's cassettes that were the superior product.
Just so you know there are millions upon millions of Soviet/Russian germanium transistors still available. I'm pretty sure germanium transistors were much more common in the Soviet Union and even later in Russia than silicone transistors.
This one look like a soviet tape player ""Электроника 302"""
Very fine cassette player, did You fix the noise problem? Was it one off the transiators?
@CSquire82 Yes,i will shot an another video of it when the problem is fixed.
Amazing format!
Thanks!
You can find such a machine once in a while on ebay germany.
Mine was also a ebay found. I have it still.
Nice collectors item !
Its an old brand "telefunken", does it still exists?
Hard to find tapes for a machine like that ;-)
Can you get these transistors working again by just tapping them?
i have one tape of this dc system intenational dc 90 agfa-gevaert from my grandmother 104 years old, and i would like to earing this tape for curiosity. from brazil. how its possible.
@mdftrasher Thanks!! No,Telefunken no longer exists today.It's today just a brand for mid and low quality products.
Yes,tapes for it are hard to find.
No,the transistor must be replaced.
+FeCr3, the Telefunken name lived on as the German representative of Britain's Decca Records. As well as its own Telefunken label, it also marketed Decca, Deram, London and MAM labels into the German-language markets of Germany(Deutschland), Austria(Oesterreich) and Switzerland(Die Schweiz). The company was eventually known as Teldec(Telefunken/Decca) Schallplatten GmbH. Later they were Teldec Record Service(Schallplattedienst) GmbH and would process not only for themselves but also for Warners in the Compact Disc era. Indeed German Teldec-made CDs of titles like "Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits" would find their way into Australian music stores. I know because my copy of that very title was made by Teldec.
Very cool device :)
@civicted Yes,thats right! I had search it in google.
@civicted Thanks! But i must fix this.It has transistor problem/s.Perhaps you've heard it in the video.
Ze maschine is veri gut
What was the point to present the same format with no benefits but in a bit larger cassette shell? Of course it's failed.
This system was superior to Phillips Compact Cassette format back in the day. The sucsess of Phillips format was due better commercial agreements made at the time with other companies such Sony, for instance that allowed the format to spread wordwide.