cliz305

 The previous owner replaced the broken lamp with blue LED (with resistors to reduce the voltage). That works but is quite ugly to me. I bought some 12V lamp from amazon (halogen?) (intended for car dashboard) ( uxcell Instrument Light 12V T3   計器灯 12V T3 イエロー 自動車 車内 ダッシュボード ). Nice stuffs. Works out great (need to remove the resistor installed by the previous owner). Note: without the lamps installed (or with only one or two lamps), the voltage seems too high (15V without lamps and extra resistors if memory served), but with all lamp installed, voltage drops to only about 10.5V. Seems pretty safe and it is bright enough.

Two big boxes of used TDK AD (117 tapes) and AR (44 tapes) just arrived. Most of the tapes are about 45min. The seller repeatedly said that the condition was bad, but they looked quite good in my eyes. Indeed, I did some quick tests with 10kHz and I am not seeing any noticeable dropout. In the description, the seller was mainly talking about the labels being wrong or written and the lack of protection knobs (which does not bother me). So all of a sudden, my base line just jumped from tdk D to AD (or even AR). I do wish there were more longer tapes in the bunch though. The fact that AD and AR have different level sensitivity also make it difficult for me to switch between the two (my deck does not have level calibration knob on the front panel).