Just got a Denon..what's the fuss?

[jwrosenthal]

Originally Posted by stuwee

Hi James, it sounds like you're having some serious transport issues with the Denon, I can't help in that area but, it is worth looking into. Does it have speed issues when it's been used for awhile, like several hours? The W&F at the start and finish could be a capistan belt, the speed thing a motor or cap in the power supply getting hot. I really don't know, just a feeling.

Oh, the w&f issues were on my walkman, not the Denon and only with a couple of the Akai GX tapes...the Maxell and TDK's I was using at the time were rock solid...that conversation was about the Akai tape itself.

The issue with my Denon 790 is simply a speed issue...it's too slow....always. I have run it for hours on end and everything works perfectly, and it's rock solid for speed/pitch control..just, it's running too slow....in fact you wouldn't know anything was wrong (I didn't at first) if you only used this deck for recording and playback except that you have more tape at the end of recording 45 minutes of music than you should. I have adjusted the variable speed knob for playing tapes recorded on other decks, and the Denon sounds fantastic with no audible w&f (I don't have test equipment, but I do have a pretty keen ear for pitch) and locks on speed perfectly....well...when the variable speed is kicked to the right one notch.

So...it runs perfectly.....but too slow.

James R.

[Crucie]

I'm in the "Id like one of those decks" club atm lol but i do have a Denon DR-M44HX and love it to death !

[fidobsa]

Interesting to read discussions of these now elderly decks. I have 2 Denons, a DRM07 and a DRM710. The older one actually lives under the bed for playing through headphones but has not been used since the foam pads on the old Sennheiser 'phones turned to dust. The 710 still lives with the rest of the hifi but is not used too much these days. It had a lot of use in the past though as I tended to record all my vinyl and just listen to it on cassette. Perhaps I'm expecting too much but most of those tapes don't play as well now as they did when I recorded them. The easy answer to this has been to just buy CDs of the same music. Perhaps I should buy some fresh tapes and have another go. Trouble is, when my old Audiolab A8000 amp died, its replacement came with no RIAA equalised phono input, so I can't currently play vinyl