Marantz 5420 Stereo Cassette Deck | 1975

[@sergei-6316]

Lovely video. I was born in '73 and grew up in the Middle East and had an Akai GXC-39D back then. I had it from the 70's right up to the mid 90's and it had a FeCr selector as well as the Limiter feature. In effect, the Limiter is like an earlier version of ALC (Auto Level Control)...As you rightly said, it prevents the recording levels from going into distortion. However, the peak level indicator on several machines from this era was another aid for setting recording levels manually. I've always preferred "Limiter" to ALC as ALC tends to attenuate the recorded signals to lower levels than on the original recording. Great Deck and very well worth preserving.

[@VinylsFinal]

@sergei-6316 Thank you for your nice message. Akai's GXC's top loading decks were very popular and robust. I have the GXC-46D as well. You may watch that video as well, as I've uploaded a video on that, too :) The limiter function rightly said is far more accurate than ALC. Limiter switch doesn't distrub the bias settings while recording. Hence, let's one to make great recordings :)

[@fab_FAM]

Nice one🎉

[@vk_evergreens]

price...?