DAT HQ MADONNA frozen / 1988 Aiwa Excelia XD001 DAT recorder = Sony DTC-1000 ES (4DD drive)

The first consumer series of Philips TDA1541 based DAT recorders using the legendary SONY 4 motor drive. The Aiwa Excelia XD001 is similar to Sonys DTC 1000 ES machine. These old recorders sound smooth and warm like an old analogue reel to reel recorder at 19cm/sec speed.

[@Grimwriggler]

very anologue sound for digital. DAT was a great format. our local radio station went over to DAT from cartridge for their idents and adverts in the early 90s at least for a while. Thanks for the upload

[@tomtom9262]

That reminds me sitting in cinema together with Madonna. No joke. Years ago she was in Berlin at Berlinale Filmfest because she directed a movie that was premiered there. Well, it was cool sitting in Zoo Palast cinema and watching a movie together with Madonna. :-)

[@Schlipperschlopper]

Thats unbeliveable! congratulations! What an event in your live :-)

[@jimmycerf]

Awesome!

[@Schlipperschlopper]

The sound quality of DAT was so good, that it had to die to make space for the cheaper and much worse MP3 shit....

[@jimmycerf]

@@Schlipperschlopper Totally agree with you! Regards!

[@Automotive.Master]

Keep watching that deck love 💘 wish I can afford to buy one that days

[@branislavbaca5882]

@Schlipperschloper: :D My all time favorite portable player iRiver H320 has DAC also from Philips and it has just the same sound signature - warm, full bodied, analog-like, punchy and quick. I can't get enough of it. I simply love how it sounds. I feel I will have really hard times to find replacement when it dies, modern "airy, thin, cold, analytical" products isn't for me. Can you upload more songs, please?

[@bensonarizona7820]

Ich bin völlig von den Socken. Nach einer Tour von Marietta über James Horner, Herbie Hancock bis Madonna habe ich auf Grund Deiner Aufnahmen ein Grinsen von Ohr zu Ohr! Selbige sind zwar nicht mehr die besten, beeinträchtigt von Tinnitus und Hörstürzen; meine Anlage ist auch nicht gerade feinste Hi-fi-Technik, und dennoch ist Dein Kanal für mich gerade ein akustisches Erweckungserlebnis erster Güte! Als hätte ich nach dem Flugzeugstart gerade meine Ohren wieder freigeblasen. :-)

[@MatiasForeitervideos]

Suena increible!

[@tecuteli]

Sound wie immer Top!

[@leocadiovonrichthofen3360]

¡Chulada!

[@AVadim]

Nice deck!

[@tanmoykumarsen1909]

Wide dynamic range

[@cowboys4life956]

I hate that they blocked The Power of Goodbye, love that song.

[@Schlipperschlopper]

Now here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3OzXqp3n8R_nbs

[@tecuteli]

Sei bedankt!

[@Villariba]

Oh ja,so einen DAT-Recorder wollte ich mir damals zulegen...leider scheiterte es da bei mir an den Finanzen,als 14-jähriger *g*

[@pablov1973]

The sound is amazing, but I need to know if you transfer the DAT sound direct to PC or if you pre recorded on tape as you do with the vinyl records. If the sound is direct from the DAT, is the most warm digital recording I ever listen, if not, as always, the analog tape do it job.

[@Schlipperschlopper]

This was feed direct into the camcorder "line in" plug, making a giant RAW MTS and than upload on youtube, the sound is very warm indeed because its a 1rst generation Philips TDA1541 16 bit (4 times oversampling) chip not a later (cheaper to produce) 1 bit 256 times oversampling bitstream. This is the first DAT recorder ever marketed in Germany together with the similar SONY DTC 1000ES. Especially musicians loved this oldest generation of recorders for voice and acoustic instruments recordings. In the past in my old agency we used this DAT recorder for off speaker recordings (Trade fair films) the head drum has only 150 hours of use so its like new (2000 hours is the estimated wear limit)

[@pablov1973]

@@Schlipperschlopper I listen again, this time with headphones, and...wow!!! how good does it sound!!! I have this album on CD and this song always distort on the bass peaks and here the peaks sound so natural, so transparent. Great piece of gear.

[@Schlipperschlopper]

I think the old hand selected multibit converters (Philips and Burr Brown) plus the very high quality analogue filter arrays are very much superior to the mass produced 1 bit DACs (one chip SMD shit) , I can highly recommend to restore any of these valuable early DAT recorders, its still possible. Also the very old CD players sound so much more natural compared to the newer ones.

[@Antonio-sd5yn]

it is really a pity that the DAT has not had the success it deserved...

[@Schlipperschlopper]

In professional sound studios they used many DAT machines

[@Antonio-sd5yn]

@@Schlipperschlopper today? oh wow

[@Schlipperschlopper]

@@Antonio-sd5yn not today (except some music producers due to the good sound). The big time of DAT in studios were the 90s and early 2000s

[@tecuteli]

1988er Baujahr.. Elkowechsel gemacht?

[@Schlipperschlopper]

Alle 10uf und 22uf /10V SMD Elkos (waren bei diesen Uralt DATs lustigerweise noch nicht ausgelaufen!!!) auf der Kopftrommelsteuerungsplatine ersetzt gegen normale 105 Grad 63V Mini Elkos (Nicht smd) und alle teils schon arg ausgetrockneten Elna Duorex auf der D/A und A/D Platine gegen neue 50 und 63V Epcos Elkos sowie BC...diese ganzen Boutiquen Elkos "Muse" "Black magic" etc....taugen nichts auf lange Sicht, kann man getrost gegen gute moderne Industrieware von BC und Epcos (werden z.B. in der Medizintechnik in EKG und CTs verwendet die taugen also was...) austauschen...auch die hochgelobten "Nichicon Muse" sind fast alle schon 10% unter Spec, alles raus...gleiches Lied in meinem analogen Tapedeck Sony TCK 950ES....alles was bunt und glitzernd war mit hochtrabendem High End Namen war hinüber :-)))) Ich verbaue nur noch HQ Medizintechnik Industrieware. Lustigerweise, alle Elkos in dem Dat die keinen hochtrabenden Namen hatten waren PERFEKT erhalten, Netzteil, Computersteuerung alles okay, nur dieser Boutiquenkram war jenseits von gut und Böse.... :-))))