The model in question is a Vesna 309, and it has some audio issues and doesn’t turn the tape. It gets a teardown ... A Western cassette deck mechanism would have been a much more sketchy ...

Remember when portable CD and cassette players seemed to be getting smaller with each iteration? Here's why this stopped ...

[Matsound] has made a tape delay using an old tape deck and regular cassette tapes. The core of the build is a portable 3-head cassette recorder, in this case a Marantz PMD430. The circuit has bee ...