As I have seen, what you publish about sound equipment is always useful. So I think it's very good that you keep it that way. And I congratulate you for continuing to make your knowledge available in a detached way. It is not usually necessary to insert a cassette in the compartment. Most of the time you don't even need to activate the cassette transport (Rec/Play/Pause). In fact, you only need to allow the signal coming from the outside to access the pre-amplification of the equipment. This is an easy procedure. It is usually enough to open the compartment lid and access the small microswitch that is part of the detection system (Tab), pressing it and pressing "REC". This microswitch is located in the upper left corner of the place where the cassette is housed, and it is facing downwards. This microswitch indicates to the mechanism whether or not it can record a given cassette that is inserted into the compartment (anti-recording system), if the plastic tab of the cassette itself is removed. In this way, you save the life of the entire transport mechanism that does not need to be turned on all the time, which puts wear and tear on the venerable BoomBox. Only the Rec switch is needed, usually.
Yes, it works, but the motor of the cassette deck mechanism will be running all the time, possibly with some of the friction slip discs also running all the time. But there is a way to stop the motor, at least in this boombox (or any boombox that have the Remote pin!) at will. Watch at 0:34, there is a pin marked Remote between the L & R pins of the Mic socket at the top of the side panel. A 2.5mm mono pin (slightly smaller than the regular headphone pin) normally fits in this Remote pin. Get the appropriate mono pin (the plug only, open with no wiring) and insert it into the Remote pin. It will stop the motor. Give a try! It is safe way, and it is designed and intended to do so.
Thanks for the tip if I ever come across a situation like that. I can't say I never came across yet a boombox like that as of yet.. All mine have the typical RCA or my Sony CFD-G500 has the 3.5mm as the same as my ION Deluxe boombox that is fairly new when I bought it in 2018 for half price..
Great short video- nice to see a proper boombox ( not like the so- called ones churned out these days). Would not be happy leaving the cassette transport in 'pause' for a long time though.
Not really, It goes both ways, as an input and an output. That is the cool thing of this type of DIN. It's like a Y cable. When you don't select Rec on the boombox, the DIN becomes an output.
@@anadialog The thing is, you have a 3 pin 3,5mm jack on one side and if you look at the pin out of a 5 pin DIN plug it reads as follows: 1 Left input 4 Right input 2 Ground 3 Left Output 5 Right Output The pin numbers could not be more screwed up than they are. Not sure which comity was responsible for that. Not sure how that works on a boom box but with a cassette deck you would use pin 1 and 4 to do what you describe and pin 3 and 5 to connect a cassette deck to the wired input of a Bluetooth speaker.
Awesome to see you do a tutorial on this.. would love more of these. Depending on the quality of your boombox the quality of the music is not always that good. But it works for me as well. Using mixxtape is my preferred method. It plays music from an SD card but also functions as a Bluetooth receiver. Look it up mixxtape cassette Again more tutorials please 🙏🙌🏻
Thanks for the video. I have an old Sanyo boombox with RCA in and the 5 pin DIN option. I tried to find info about how to use the DIN for streaming from cellphone to radio. Hard to get info on this specific application. I ordered a number of cables on eBay to experiment with including 3.5mm stereo plug to dual RCA and 3.5mm to 5 pin DIN adapter. I'm looking forward to trying it. I've been using a wired cassette adapter in the deck to stream music through the cassette player. With the cassette adapter, only need to hit play to get it to work. I connect a long extension so I don't have to sit near it. The Bluetooth cassette adapter I have has to be recharged, so I prefer wired.
I tried it and my god it worked! Thank you so much. I have been wanting to bluetooth my JVC ghetto blaster RC-656LB for some time. its just stopping the tape motor as i dont have that the remote between the mic inputs. any other way to stop the tape motor?
Good thing is that boomboxes vs a sophisticated full logic deck don't "see" if there's any kind of tape transport, so you could just use an empty shell with the sole purpose of unlocking the record key, and it won't stop or complain in any way.
Hello, I have rc-636l. It has din input but theres no switch "Din In". Also Cassete motor is dead. Will it still work if I connect Din aux? As i see theres no need for motor to work. It just needs 3 buttons to be pushed. Also what mode should I choose to receive signal? Maybe tape?
Wouldn't it be easier to use a DIN PB/REC cable as indicated on the boombox? I'm talking about a 4-way DIN cable, two channels in (record) and two channels out (playback). Again, should you keep a tape in rec/pause to listen? Wouldn't the source be heard directly in that case?
That is precisely the cable I am using, otherwise it would be a 5 pin DIN, 2 channels for input, 2 for output and 1 for ground. In 1979 the input for playback is the phono preamp, the other DIN input, for them, made sense only for recording
I have a Saba Donau P and it have a Midi 5 Pin din Input and I bought a cable from Amazon and now I can hear my music from Spotify ore whatever from what source I want Go hear the music
I assume that you won't take it amiss if I make a suggestion… Why don't you make a video explaining what are the differences between the different types of analog audio inputs and outputs that exist in audio machines, the names that the connectors may have, what type of signal they accept, what are the inherent features, small summaries about the history of the connectors, etc.? It's just that it seems to me - from the comments I've seen written here and even though I don't want to upset anyone - that there are people who are not used to it and not even with a good image of the connectors panel understand exactly what they allow to do with audio signals, nor do they identify the difference between a “Phono” signal input and a “Line” or “Aux” signal. I think that would make good content for your channel.
I do the the same with one of my mid 80s boom box collection all if it have a line input I use a bluetooth connection using my phone oh plug it to the line input to my smart phone just in case someone tried to call me the music still play when I turn off the ring from the smart phone
Hi! I did the same with my Toshiba RT-6035 boombox but it's not working. When i press the record and play buttons no sound comes out from the boombox. Can you help me? Thanks for the answer in advance.
Make sure you have the right din plug. Could have broken over time also. Did you put a cassette inside? Try also inserting a jack in one of the mic plugs. It could activate it.
Yea u play the phone , but i dont have to do that because u cant record on to the cassette , i did with a 3 cd cassette component , but i had to go in auxiliry
I thought for a moment the cause of the problem was going to be something else. The DIN could have been connected to the output pins rather than the input ones. I've had that problem before back in the day!
@@anadialog You'd expect so but I'm pretty sure mine didn't if memory serves. It had 2 mono mini jacks at the other end, one red and one black. The black sent a mono signal out whilst the red received a mono signal in from the DIN. Then I got someone to resolder the pins so I could have left and right jack send to stereo DIN in one direction only. It was a long time ago so memory a bit fuzzy.
Okay. But no way would I want the cassette on pause for extended periods of time - those old boomboxes cost an arm and a leg these days so the cassette motor burning out will be a royal pain. Why not just buy a Boombox that has AUX IN, then buy a Bluetooth receiver that has CD quality streaming (I have one), plug that into the AUX IN and stream music into the Boombox that way?
If the boombox has a Remote pin along with the Mic input sockets, Just insert a 2.5mm mono plug in the Remote pin. It will cut the power to the motor and stop the motor.
You took the long way around why not just use the RCA jacks on the side You could have bypassed using the cassette altogether I if you're going to do that just get a cassette that health or cable already on it
Because there are no RCA connectors, as I said in the video the ones you see are for a turntable, it's a phono stage not a line stage! Many boomboxes are like that.
Because Bluetooth receivers have extremely low quality converters plus bluetooth is wireless and the sound is lossy and the sound can degrade a lot. Might as well get a Bluetooth speaker and “enjoy” the low-fi that way.
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As I have seen, what you publish about sound equipment is always useful. So I think it's very good that you keep it that way. And I congratulate you for continuing to make your knowledge available in a detached way.
It is not usually necessary to insert a cassette in the compartment. Most of the time you don't even need to activate the cassette transport (Rec/Play/Pause).
In fact, you only need to allow the signal coming from the outside to access the pre-amplification of the equipment. This is an easy procedure.
It is usually enough to open the compartment lid and access the small microswitch that is part of the detection system (Tab), pressing it and pressing "REC". This microswitch is located in the upper left corner of the place where the cassette is housed, and it is facing downwards.
This microswitch indicates to the mechanism whether or not it can record a given cassette that is inserted into the compartment (anti-recording system), if the plastic tab of the cassette itself is removed.
In this way, you save the life of the entire transport mechanism that does not need to be turned on all the time, which puts wear and tear on the venerable BoomBox.
Only the Rec switch is needed, usually.
Yes, it works, but the motor of the cassette deck mechanism will be running all the time, possibly with some of the friction slip discs also running all the time.
But there is a way to stop the motor, at least in this boombox (or any boombox that have the Remote pin!) at will.
Watch at 0:34, there is a pin marked Remote between the L & R pins of the Mic socket at the top of the side panel.
A 2.5mm mono pin (slightly smaller than the regular headphone pin) normally fits in this Remote pin.
Get the appropriate mono pin (the plug only, open with no wiring) and insert it into the Remote pin.
It will stop the motor. Give a try!
It is safe way, and it is designed and intended to do so.
Thanks, great reccomendation!
Thanks for the tip if I ever come across a situation like that. I can't say I never came across yet a boombox like that as of yet.. All mine have the typical RCA or my Sony CFD-G500 has the 3.5mm as the same as my ION Deluxe boombox that is fairly new when I bought it in 2018 for half price..
RCA connectors works a lot easier. Plug into headphone connector on your phone , red and white rca plugs into your boombox. Pretty simple
Wow! That was rocket science
No, but if you don't know, it's almost impossible to find this on the web. Obviously, for who follows me, knows perfectly that this is a minor video.
Great tip! Thnx.
Great short video- nice to see a proper boombox ( not like the so- called ones churned out these days). Would not be happy leaving the cassette transport in 'pause' for a long time though.
Also you need to have your 3,5mm connector wired to the REC-input and not play back output, it could go wrong if you order the wrong cable.
Not really, It goes both ways, as an input and an output. That is the cool thing of this type of DIN. It's like a Y cable. When you don't select Rec on the boombox, the DIN becomes an output.
@@anadialog The thing is, you have a 3 pin 3,5mm jack on one side and if you look at the pin out of a 5 pin DIN plug it reads as follows:
1 Left input
4 Right input
2 Ground
3 Left Output
5 Right Output
The pin numbers could not be more screwed up than they are. Not sure which comity was responsible for that.
Not sure how that works on a boom box but with a cassette deck you would use pin 1 and 4 to do what you describe and pin 3 and 5 to connect a cassette deck to the wired input of a Bluetooth speaker.
in a nutshell you just taught me how to record anything off my phone onto a cassette tape
That is also another way to look at it, yeah! :-)
Thanks for the video. You’re doing a nice job.
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Portugal
Awesome to see you do a tutorial on this.. would love more of these.
Depending on the quality of your boombox the quality of the music is not always that good. But it works for me as well. Using mixxtape is my preferred method. It plays music from an SD card but also functions as a Bluetooth receiver. Look it up mixxtape cassette
Again more tutorials please 🙏🙌🏻
I fully agree!
How cool!!
I’m not affiliated in any way.. but it’s pretty good.. tried it on multiple cassette decks..he’s got a high res version on kickstarter now.
Thanks for the video. I have an old Sanyo boombox with RCA in and the 5 pin DIN option. I tried to find info about how to use the DIN for streaming from cellphone to radio. Hard to get info on this specific application. I ordered a number of cables on eBay to experiment with including 3.5mm stereo plug to dual RCA and 3.5mm to 5 pin DIN adapter. I'm looking forward to trying it. I've been using a wired cassette adapter in the deck to stream music through the cassette player. With the cassette adapter, only need to hit play to get it to work. I connect a long extension so I don't have to sit near it. The Bluetooth cassette adapter I have has to be recharged, so I prefer wired.
Perfect
I tried it and my god it worked! Thank you so much. I have been wanting to bluetooth my JVC ghetto blaster RC-656LB for some time. its just stopping the tape motor as i dont have that the remote between the mic inputs. any other way to stop the tape motor?
Check the comment! A few guys explained how to do that.
Sometimes other boomboxes have aux to aux so make sure u get aux to aux or make it bluetooth
Good thing is that boomboxes vs a sophisticated full logic deck don't "see" if there's any kind of tape transport, so you could just use an empty shell with the sole purpose of unlocking the record key, and it won't stop or complain in any way.
You can use a FM transmitter to get your source through if no inputs are present
funny as allways:-))))
Hello, I have rc-636l. It has din input but theres no switch "Din In". Also Cassete motor is dead. Will it still work if I connect Din aux? As i see theres no need for motor to work. It just needs 3 buttons to be pushed. Also what mode should I choose to receive signal? Maybe tape?
EXACTLY WHAT I NEED FOR MY HI8 DUPLICATION SUITE, THANK YOU!!! KP
Wouldn't it be easier to use a DIN PB/REC cable as indicated on the boombox? I'm talking about a 4-way DIN cable, two channels in (record) and two channels out (playback). Again, should you keep a tape in rec/pause to listen? Wouldn't the source be heard directly in that case?
That is precisely the cable I am using, otherwise it would be a 5 pin DIN, 2 channels for input, 2 for output and 1 for ground. In 1979 the input for playback is the phono preamp, the other DIN input, for them, made sense only for recording
I have a Saba Donau P and it have a Midi 5 Pin din Input and I bought a cable from Amazon and now I can hear my music from Spotify ore whatever from what source I want Go hear the music
I assume that you won't take it amiss if I make a suggestion…
Why don't you make a video explaining what are the differences between the different types of analog audio inputs and outputs that exist in audio machines, the names that the connectors may have, what type of signal they accept, what are the inherent features, small summaries about the history of the connectors, etc.?
It's just that it seems to me - from the comments I've seen written here and even though I don't want to upset anyone - that there are people who are not used to it and not even with a good image of the connectors panel understand exactly what they allow to do with audio signals, nor do they identify the difference between a “Phono” signal input and a “Line” or “Aux” signal.
I think that would make good content for your channel.
Can you use this method if your tape deck doesn't work? Got an Aiwa for Giveaway price and it has a din but the tape deck doesn't work.
You mean only for listening to an external output? Could be! It should at least turn on...
I do the the same with one of my mid 80s boom box collection all if it have a line input I use a bluetooth connection using my phone oh plug it to the line input to my smart phone just in case someone tried to call me the music still play when I turn off the ring from the smart phone
I have one vintage hifi like this, a JVC pc-w-222, i don't even understand how to turn it on, is there an on/off button hidden somewhere?
You probably just need to insert a medium and press play
So now you tell me this sheesh
Hi! I did the same with my Toshiba RT-6035 boombox but it's not working. When i press the record and play buttons no sound comes out from the boombox. Can you help me? Thanks for the answer in advance.
Make sure you have the right din plug. Could have broken over time also. Did you put a cassette inside? Try also inserting a jack in one of the mic plugs. It could activate it.
@@anadialog Thanks for the answer. Yes i did put a blank cassette inside.
Yea u play the phone , but i dont have to do that because u cant record on to the cassette , i did with a 3 cd cassette component , but i had to go in auxiliry
hi, where did you get the adaptor?
Look for a DIN 3 5mm jack adaptor on Amazon or ebay!
Can we connect any old boom box with smart phone
It depends from the inputs. If you don’t have classic RCA inputs you may have the situation described in this video
I thought for a moment the cause of the problem was going to be something else. The DIN could have been connected to the output pins rather than the input ones. I've had that problem before back in the day!
The DIN integrates output and input
@@anadialog You'd expect so but I'm pretty sure mine didn't if memory serves. It had 2 mono mini jacks at the other end, one red and one black. The black sent a mono signal out whilst the red received a mono signal in from the DIN. Then I got someone to resolder the pins so I could have left and right jack send to stereo DIN in one direction only. It was a long time ago so memory a bit fuzzy.
It's more easy with RCA connectors.
Yes, when you have them!
Yes. 1/8 inch audio plug to RCA. Totally easier
It does not have them, listen to what I say
I have one issue, once I plug it to my computer or phone, the volume starts high , then drops down to low, any idea?
I don't! We need a tech!
Turn the volume down on your phone - The auto record level is kicking in and dropping the signal.
Okay. But no way would I want the cassette on pause for extended periods of time - those old boomboxes cost an arm and a leg these days so the cassette motor burning out will be a royal pain. Why not just buy a Boombox that has AUX IN, then buy a Bluetooth receiver that has CD quality streaming (I have one), plug that into the AUX IN and stream music into the Boombox that way?
If the boombox has a Remote pin along with the Mic input sockets, Just insert a 2.5mm mono plug in the Remote pin. It will cut the power to the motor and stop the motor.
You took the long way around why not just use the RCA jacks on the side You could have bypassed using the cassette altogether I if you're going to do that just get a cassette that health or cable already on it
Because there are no RCA connectors, as I said in the video the ones you see are for a turntable, it's a phono stage not a line stage! Many boomboxes are like that.
Why not just get a Bluetooth receiver and connect it to the RCA in? Seems easier
Because Bluetooth receivers have extremely low quality converters plus bluetooth is wireless and the sound is lossy and the sound can degrade a lot. Might as well get a Bluetooth speaker and “enjoy” the low-fi that way.
El problema es que el motor va a funcionar todo ese tiempo
How to block the motor while using the boombox DIN with your smartphone