Quick Demo of General Electric 4CM3326X With Atari 2600 - Color TV AM-FM Stereo Micro Cassette 1982

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Al’s Guitars

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Quick operational demo of a very rare boom box with removable stereo metal tape capable micro cassette and 5” Color TV.

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@gavincurtis 9 ай бұрын

My uncle worked at the landfill and brought something almost identical to this home. It looked just like this unit but without the TV and a full size cassette deck with logic controls. It had the most amazing sound for 3" speakers and was very well made.

@alsguitars5127 9 ай бұрын

This one too produces a wide stereo effect for small speakers. Thanks for watching and for your comment.

@raymondk2202 9 ай бұрын

i once worked at a TV and audio repair shop and found this unit on the pile of what was going to be thrown away. Fixed it and it was a fun thing to have in the 90's as a electronics guy

@alsguitars5127 9 ай бұрын

I have to think some of the original owners of these were concert goers. You could sneak in the recorder part and bootleg a concert with stereo recording then go home and patch cord it to a full size Cassette Deck. I agree its a fun oddball. Thanks for watching and the comment.

@synapticburn 8 ай бұрын

this thing would have been such a flex back in the day. bad ass

@alsguitars5127 8 ай бұрын

Finally appreciated all these years later. Thanks for watching.

@microtacc 9 ай бұрын

...with removable MINI CASSETTE-Player/-Recorder; WHO in this world needs this? 🤣

@alsguitars5127 9 ай бұрын

I think buyers asked the same question. But would have been sweet in 1982 to sneak into a concert with a stereo micro recorder. Maybe that was thought. Thanks for watching.

@Rotterdam93 9 ай бұрын

I like this boombox

@alsguitars5127 9 ай бұрын

Its a very odd product in all ways. Well built. TV is a great performer! Thanks for watching!

@solwidotnl 9 ай бұрын

That's cool but the heads of your cassette mechanism are probably filthy, it should sound much better.

@alsguitars5127 9 ай бұрын

They were dirty but I have cleaned them now. They were not that bad but the demo tape was poor quality. Thanks for watching.

@randyharrigan4790 9 ай бұрын

I really really hope to find one of those one day so cool and even more cool it has a color tv and microcassette

@alsguitars5127 9 ай бұрын

Hi. I did just put this one up on eBay. Its about the oddest boombox I’ve seen. Using a micro cassette as a high fidelity source was such a novel idea. Thanks for your comment.

@NotATube 9 ай бұрын

@@alsguitars5127 They at least tried to turn it into a HiFi format, but it was never going to work. As the Techmoan video I mentioned elsewhere suggested, they tried using metal tape and decks to overcome the quality limitations, but that made it too expensive for something that still sounded disappointingly mediocre.

@majorhemroid 9 ай бұрын

Too bad that radio isn't picking up music from it's era.

@alsguitars5127 9 ай бұрын

Something for next time. Thanks for watching!

@SdjdidjeuDidjdjdkkd 9 ай бұрын

Strange to cram a tv into a stereo

@alsguitars5127 9 ай бұрын

This product was the answer to a question no one was asking. It is pretty cool though.

@genericreference6969 9 ай бұрын

Think of it as an early early predecessor to the iPhone :)

@denniseldridge2936 9 ай бұрын

Wow, what a strange and rare beast. Someone actually thought that the microcassette would make a listenable music experience lol. Anyone who's heard a dictation machine will tell you that it is one of the worst audio mediums known to man, besides the early experiments with carbon on paper in the mid 19th century haha

@alsguitars5127 9 ай бұрын

So true, however very few attempted a metal tape capable stereo one. So while the format is not good for fidelity, this is as good as it got.

@NotATube 9 ай бұрын

@@alsguitars5127 Techmoan had a video covering a standalone "Hi-Fi" Microcassette deck which also used metal tapes, and I think this was a standard feature of their failed attempt to turn it into a "serious" music format. IIRC the conclusion was this was pretty much *necessary* to offset the format's poor audio quality. And despite that use of metal tape- and the fact that it made the unit correspondingly expensive (probably comparable in price to a really nice-sounding "regular-sized" metal cassette deck)- the sound was still disappointingly flat and mediocre. So it's no surprise that the attempt to push Microcassette as a music format went nowhere.