Advantages: Excellent recording quality thanks to advanced technical facilities Disadvantages: Hidden minor controls are fiddly.
...a strong pound. Grrrr!
Yamaha really have done all they to wring out the last drop of quality from an analogue recording. You have Dolby's B, C AND S (S is a step further on in the battle against the dreaded hiss, and more compatible with B than C is). Good news if you play tapes in the car which only has Dolby B. Also there's HX Pro "headroom expansion" which adjust the machines record characteristics "on the fly", and last but not least, there's ... ...a CD player like my Yamaha CDX-496, which can find the loudest part of a CD selection before you record, thus enabling the optimum record level, then you have a pretty formidable set up. On the subject of sticking to the same make, this deck is compatible with the "synchro-record" on the CD player's remote.
The machine is well made, and within the bounds of it's "blackness" good to look at - its minor controls hide behind a neat flap, but because ...
BNibbles 11.12.2000 (10.02.2001)
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(+) high sound quality, diverse functions, record to tape mode, record from tape mode (-) usless instruction manual, useless recording programme, not all cables supplied
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