If you have a Beocord 3300 cassette deck that has stopped playing tapes or refuses to rewind you may be able to fix it. This post runs through how to change all three belts on the 40 year old Beocord… Continue Reading →
If you have found this post, you are likely to have a radio like this Philips Babette from the 1950s. If so, your radio is suffering from poor-quality, distorted sound. I have found some ways to improve it so it… Continue Reading →
Do you have a vintage Becker Europa High Fidelity vacuum tube car radio that you want to fix? If so, I’ll run through several faults and fixes that could restore your Becker for that classic sound. Warning: Valve car radios… Continue Reading →
If you have a Tandberg Series 15 reel to reel tape recorder that no longer plays it may be simple to repair so don’t throw it away. This post shows you what to check and how to fix your Tandberg… Continue Reading →
Do you have an Aiwa or other vintage cassette player from the 1990s that has lost its volume and no longer sounds super bass? Or maybe you can hear humming and ticking sounds when the motor runs between tracks? If… Continue Reading →
Dieter Rams designed the T1000 for Braun back in the early 1960s but like many of Ram’s designs it still looks modern — a classic radio icon. Much has been written about the T1000 and its later CD version, popular… Continue Reading →
In this post I run through some repairs to one of my oldest audio items an Akai 4000D reel-to-reel tape recorder first manufactured in the 1970s. I bought the tape recorder second hand in the early seventies from an ad… Continue Reading →
Hello, do you have a Vectrex video games console which displays odd dots or lines like this one? If so, I’ll run through some ideas that helped fix the Vectrex video faults I found. Warning: The Vectrex has dangerously high… Continue Reading →
Has your Beogram CD 3300 stopped playing discs? Maybe it starts running for a few seconds and then displays a red question mark instead of a track number? Is so, it could be easy to repair. Warning: Disconnect mains power… Continue Reading →
Here at Radio Retro we had a dilemma. Like many others who captured their family’s precious moments on video in the 1980s, 90s and early noughties, before mobile was a thing, we have a problem — incompatible upgrade hell. This… Continue Reading →
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