Onkyo TA-RW544 dual well, auto reverse/record/play unit I found at Salvation Army last year for the exorbitant sum of $4.99. All in needed was a good cleaning. Works like a champ.
I'm a relative newbie here on AK, and I have to say, some of the systems you guys and gals have here just blow me away.
Here's my humble tape machines, up and running again after being looked at by Tinman.
I'm the original owner of both of them so it meant a lot to me to get them working again so I can enjoy them.
Pioneer CT-S88R. Found in a thrift for $12.99. It works and sounds like brand new and is cosmetically excellent. The dbx work like a champ - better than that on the Technics I owned years ago. Now I can finally listen to all my dbx encoded tapes.....
This is my ROSTOV stereo 105 from 1987......Space, the final frontier.
The Soviet propaganda poster insert reads: "Soviet man be proud ! You opened the road to stars from earth"