I recently picked up this unit for $80. The sound this thing produced when i played Donald Fagen"The Nightfly" on sacd was amazing. Im really happy with my purchase!

Odličan je druže ovaj tascam DA 30

Just wanted to say thank you for your review of this magnificent Dat machine 😊 I just got the same machine how I got into dat I don't know but I love audio and video equipment but I really enjoy nostalgia equipment that operates with cd audio quality no compression and that is this panasonic Sv-3800 and I wanted to be able to record from any source in my studio. I really really enjoy this dat the functions the real crisp clear audio you get when recording and play back...AWESOMENESS 😊 Thanks again for your videos... let's connect (" PeaceLove&GodBless

i have notice that as well, this is the 1st cd is not copy protected but the 2nd is. this copy protection let you make 1 copy for your usage but you cant make 2nd. but your DAT (up to hour) is automatically recorded with protection as every consumer DAT adding copy protection on tape.

Your talking about Dolby s for 3 heads, florescent display, digital display, headroom either hx pro or bias possibly mpx filter.

the only problem with this method,you should have measured the output levels must be equal.I VE GOT also TDV 6541, 531 DECK. ACCORDIGLY 300 MV OUTPUTS AZ ZERO LEVEL THAT MEANS HERE -8 DB LEVEL . TO LOOK AT CLOSLY THE DISPLAY THERE ARE 2 ZERO MARK .A LITTLE THAT MEANS 300 MV WITH 1 KHZ ACCORDINGLY JVC,AND THE NORMAL MARK WHEN COMES APPROX .430 MVOLT.THE NORMAL .775 MILLI VOLTS EFFECTIVE AT PLUS 4 DB.THAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH THIS COMPU LINK TECHNOLOGY.ANOTHER JVC DECKS THE ZERO POINTS AT . 500 MVOLTS, DD5,KDA 55,JVC KDV-6 ETC.THE BEST RESULTS WILL COME WHEN THIS UNIT ADJUSTED AT .430 MILLIVOLTS AT ZERO MARKS. GREATS SÁNDOR A JVC FAN.

I own a Panasonic SV-DA10, and the mechanical operation mechanism should not be very different from the SV-3800. The issue you described occasionally happens to me as well, mostly when rewinding to find the previous track, where it has trouble accurately locating and stopping. I'm not certain whether this is a time code issue or a mechanical problem. Have you tried other DAT or DDS-1 tapes? Do they also have issues with accurately locating tracks during rewind? Anyway, your SV-3800 looks absolutely beautiful.

I should pull my tiny Sony DAT recorders out and see if they still work, and how healthy my masters are from over 25 years ago. My 1/4" two- & four-track tapes survived getting stuck in the same box as some heavy magneted speakers for the same time, so we shall see.

Thank you, sir, for the trouble of explaining everything just perfectly fine! It seems to be of quality even for a 'top plastic' panel! There's one around being sold for almost 1k usd..., not a bargain, but, yeah!

The deck is playing or recording for few seconds then it stops and front panel buttons Play, Rec, pause become inactive. Until I eject tape and load again. Then issue repeats. What could be causing it? Note, tapes are new and work with otherDAT machines.

Thanks for your videos covering dat machines 👍 😉, I just recently got an panasonic Sv-3800 from ebay hope it's a good unit cause I had to send back a Alesis Adat wasn't working properly. My intentions is to record , storage and hear music in a higher quality.

l'ho avuto non riuscivano a ripararlo FRANCO

just picked one up for 25 tryna figure out how to test it 😅

Hours are on back panel, bro 🤦‍♂️

How to increase output treble of my Sony 3 head deck 222esl , can you pls give idea brother

This video overview was amazing. I don't have a Tape 1 and 2 on my preamp, but do have multiple inputs that I could use. I also verified you're 100% correct by reading the Yamaha manual online. Thanks for this!

Hope you are OK, not seen a new video for nearly a year

My mother has this and we are trying to get it back on. What cables are needed to get this thing running again? An amplifier? A receiver? Would it require new speakers if so, what kind? Please help:)

I still got mines still running fantastic

Mine also still works

Hi, I have the same dat as you, (tascam DA 20MKII). In your video at minute 05:21 you press the skip button and the track goes to the second song. If I press the skip button, the tape does not stop at track, two, three etc., it continues without stopping. The recording was made from a cd with space of about 4 seconds between one song and the other. Why? Thanks, Orlando.

I still kinda dont get how DATs work as far as going through the tracks on one. In other words, can you skip through tracks on a given recording on a DAT the same way you can for example on a CD? If a DAT has let’s say 15 songs (tracks), and I wanna listen to track 8, do i have to actually rewind/fast forward the DAT manually to that specific 8th track? Or can i automatically skip through the track list till i get to track 8 like on a CD (CD player) and the DAT player automatically goes & plays that track?

You are correct this is a great tape deck I still have mine and it still works

Ha il delay.....?

Great deck. Very much missing cassette backlight 😢

Have KX 630 and KX 393 purchased a bit earlier. Both silver, both good looking. Probably keep 393 too😊

Thanks. I spent weeks looking for a nice CD Transport when I realized I’ve a Toshiba SD9000 DVD player which at the time it was released was a £1500 high end DVD player weighing 20 lbs. So wondered why I couldn’t use that as a CD transport instead ? Question is - do I use RCA or digital or coaxial into the DAC?

It was apart of a rack system from 1988. I own the same one

All of the belts in mine need to be replaced, dso you know the sizes of each of them. I know this video is old but that would be so helpful.

Das Deck funktioniert perfekt wenn man einen Capstan den hinteren hinter löschkopf ausbaut. Der Capstan Riemen kann dann auch weg direkt antrieb seit 100 von Stunden absolut fehlerfrei im Einsatz toller Klang besser als ein Zwei Capstan Laufwerk.... Wr eh nur ein Marketing Gag von Sony 😂

Beautiful deck!

I've been dreading the thought of fixing my 707es for the last 7 years now and watching this video was a life saver... I wouldn't have been able to do it without u!

I got one, but I need a belt. Anybody have the belt number.

Arnold?

Have this one for sale?

Hey - great video. On Page 20 of the manual it specifies there is a display brightness setting adjustment only available via the remote. Likely the bottom unit has just been dimmed using this setting. Cheers.

TCK-611S vs Yamaha 580Se

Is a DAT tape same as a VCR tape?

Do you have a used dat player for sale? thank you.

I need to replace the belts on mine I just found this machine at my local goodwill for 9$ I would greatly appreciate some advice if you know some

Very good

I BOUGTH ONE REPAIRED GREAT DECK WAS ONLY 50 BUCKS

Very nice video,which gives clear ideas of servicing any kind of mechanism. It is regrated that SONY such a reputed brand is using poor quality of belts for this classic mechanism. Thanks for this intresting. video Mohan.(India)

Do you know how to figure out how many hours the unit has on it?

Hi! How satisfied are you with it? Sound and mechanical quality? I found one of these types used, cassette drive gears slightly worn. Are these interchangeable? Thanks.

Many Thanks!!

Imam dva komada, jednom mijenjao remenje na jednom i to je to. Nažalost, nisam ih koristio zadnjih skoro 6 godina pa ne znam u kakvom su stanju. Kad ljudima prezentiram dbx, svi su zapanjeni koliko ta redukcija šuma ukloni šum trake. Počeo sam prebacivati snimke s kazeta na minidisc medije iz razloga što ne znam koliko bi kazetofoni mogli još biti upotrebljivi. Uživao sam u tim kazetofonima, a život nema reprizu. :-(

You should use a properly calibrated direct drive deck to make this kind of tape, but you don't have it. Assumption is that the right deck on this unit is on the point, so it's dead right with the tape speed, and that's why we can use it to approximately make a test tape for some other tape deck. It's not perfect and proper, but it works.

how to record from rear inputs?

That's not how it works. You need a test tone tape , a professionally made test tape .Made on calibrated equipment. Than you can adjust your deck . If you have a frequency counter or frequency counter app.