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Hi all,
I drove out to pick up the Denon DR-M4 cassette deck this past Monday. The seller held the deck for me for over a week, while he was still getting plenty of responses to his ad in CAM (Canuck Audio Mart). I was one of the first respondents to his ad when it popped up on CAM and I realized, after recognizing his username, I had purchased a cassette deck from him, before. Early in our email exchange, when he found out who I was, he offered me a substantially better price than the advertised listing.
Emil, the seller, has lots of good, vintage gear. He is sort of like me, in that, he buys a component, uses it, then sells it to finance something else that's either rarer or a matching component in the same manufacturing line. He has a great Telefunken mini-component set and I listened to it while he played a tape through the deck. Quite astounding performance.
Emil is very proud of this system and sent me follow-up information of this Telefunken stereo line, including a video of the internals of the RC-300 deck with Papst multidrive - the same design of drive used in the highly-acclaimed Revox B215/B710. He also has something else I may buy at a later date.
Emil demoed the Denon DR-M4 for me and told me about its history. He had bought two DR-M4s last year and sent both to his technician to have them serviced. They weren't working when he bought them and thought one properly-operating deck could be made from the two. The technician got both working and Emil gifted the second DR-M4 to the technician and I now have the other.
This is my first Denon deck, but I had used my X-brother-in-law's Denon deck back in the mid-80's to make mix tapes for our wedding ceremony. And I still have those tapes.
Since I got the original factory brochure, along with the Operating Manual, I spent time scanning the brochure so you can see what this deck features:
Nando.
I drove out to pick up the Denon DR-M4 cassette deck this past Monday. The seller held the deck for me for over a week, while he was still getting plenty of responses to his ad in CAM (Canuck Audio Mart). I was one of the first respondents to his ad when it popped up on CAM and I realized, after recognizing his username, I had purchased a cassette deck from him, before. Early in our email exchange, when he found out who I was, he offered me a substantially better price than the advertised listing.
Emil, the seller, has lots of good, vintage gear. He is sort of like me, in that, he buys a component, uses it, then sells it to finance something else that's either rarer or a matching component in the same manufacturing line. He has a great Telefunken mini-component set and I listened to it while he played a tape through the deck. Quite astounding performance.
Emil is very proud of this system and sent me follow-up information of this Telefunken stereo line, including a video of the internals of the RC-300 deck with Papst multidrive - the same design of drive used in the highly-acclaimed Revox B215/B710. He also has something else I may buy at a later date.
Emil demoed the Denon DR-M4 for me and told me about its history. He had bought two DR-M4s last year and sent both to his technician to have them serviced. They weren't working when he bought them and thought one properly-operating deck could be made from the two. The technician got both working and Emil gifted the second DR-M4 to the technician and I now have the other.
This is my first Denon deck, but I had used my X-brother-in-law's Denon deck back in the mid-80's to make mix tapes for our wedding ceremony. And I still have those tapes.
Since I got the original factory brochure, along with the Operating Manual, I spent time scanning the brochure so you can see what this deck features:
Nando.