AIWA AD-WX909 In-depth review - Walkman Archive

In this video I review all key features of this cool deck, probably the best dual deck ever made, thanks to its unique 3-head deck in the right.
See the original article in my blog, here:
http://www.walkman-archive.com/wa/201...

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hi welcome to my walkman
archive channel on YouTube this time I
would like to show you in this
iowa ad WX 909 which was one of the best
duel decks and that this one released in
his whole history
this deck I turn it on it's a very
interesting model because it combines a
standard to headache with another more
advanced three headache on the right
it really is a unique model and has no
competitors in its category as known of
other decks
had a three hit the deck inside it is
second hand and I've got it in the
flower market externally
it is in excellent condition the front
is almost perfect
no visible scratches at all yes the
little we're here and here and a little
thing here in general the condition is
excellent
it has been surprised by a NT audio in
london UK restoration work has been
quite difficult because i thought the
left dick was in very good condition
they're right dick had a broken bearing
of a cast on and and other problems too
so Alex are at a nti audio had to do a
great difficult work
replacing parts of feet with parts of a
different modern since they could not be
assembled and it literally he had to
manually make modification to these
until they could finally get used it is
a dick that looks more modern Danny's
since it was launched in 1987
so today in 2014 is 27 years old but in
my opinion it doesn't look so well
that's it
I think it has a very elegant design
that can see time passing by
without aging a lot it is control mainly
with feather touch buttons not those or
piano case all buttons in this area's
our feather touch the only man all
buttons are those that open the doors
and i will put two tapes right now
in addition there are several switches
to select certain functions that i will
explain later
mechanically isa very curious deck
because it does not share elements
between the two decks as usual but there
is a completely independent deck in left
and another completely independent to in
the right
each one has its own motor or bells and
or other secretary this one on the left
is a standard to head deck a more photos
as shown here and the right one
easter three headache with the usual
Street to monitor their recording so you
can listen to the sound source by Neil
see the radio or whatever or you can
choose to monitor the tape while
recording which means that you can hear
what is being record while recording
that's a future impossible to see in any
other duel deck but this one as it's
typically found in three headaches
transport ears driving by beds so it is
not data drive it features out to
reverse but only in this dick
not in this one and therefore has a
suite for three different modes with
know how to reverse a tall one cycle and
continues the outer reverse is very
quick
it's a system that I were offered in
those years
and works by detecting the translucent
tape at the end of each side
construction is almost entirely metallic
as the upper color
why the front panel is a mixture of
metal and plastic for example this error
is right here are metallic but these
buttons are made of plastic but overall
it is very stiff and very heavy as well
it has a big display actually there are
three small this place in here you see
two counters here if I press play here
you will see the left counter increasing
and if I press play
here you will see the two contours
increasing here there are also the level
meters but they are not as the tales as
it seems there are many dots in here but
in fact there are many much less
segments here as every segment combines
three dots
so here you see one two three four five
so it's not as accurate but it's still
ok
these deck features are dual dolby
system one completely independent for
each day
so there is a single switch for both and
you can choose will be B and C for this
one
and for this one to you see the little
lights going on these lengths are
showing which BB time you select it also
features and RB h x pro but this one is
always enable and cannot be disabled
you bet you Mary remember that it only
works while recording and not while
playing it has no DX which if you don't
know it
it's a very advanced noise reduction
system but her little sister
the WX 808 which is a slightly lower
respect deck has it
I thought this model doesn't have a
three headache in the right
this dick has no tape type selector
because it's automatically detect it
features music search that automatically
searches for the beginning of the next
or the previous songs
both decks have this feature a very
useful feature is that it can queue on
review just by keeping pressed these
buttons right here
it also features out of landscape and if
you activate the switch and wait a
moment you will see that it will
automatically start winning the tape
forward to find the beginning of the
next song
what are recording while recording you
can adjust the recording level manually
with this not this inner one is for the
right channel and the outer one for the
left channel
of course you can see the effect with
the level meters
but how do the levers work when you are
duplicating tapes
well the right deck has priority over
the left leg
this mean that if both are plain the one
on the right is shown however it has
both outputs for both decks
so you can connect both to an amplifier
or another device to receive the sound
of both decks even simultaneously but if
you want to use headphones you can
choose with the switch right here which
that you want to listen to
moreover being a three-headed deck
you can adjust the bias this is usually
done while recording and more returning
the tape so you can adjust it to each
particular type of tape and get a flat
response and excellent sound quality
this is possible thanks to the three hit
that the right deck has however it has
no internal signal generators to help
perform a calibrations as many high
index have
nor automatic calibration functions that
do all the processed automatically
anyway there's a sticker on the top with
a lot of note suggesting the best
setting for the bias not to help you
find the best adjustment for many
different types of going from normal to
Chrome tapes in this deck is doesn't
work with metal tips regarding the sound
quality
the fact is that it is very good but not
as good as the best simple decks like a
committee she
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nakanishi dragon but you may not forget
that this is a duel deck
the quality of the decks the both decks
inside is actually very high much better
than the best majority of duel decks
it probably stands at the top of the
duel decks category
this is probably the best double dick
that have ever been made
so you guess the quality is really very
good
furthermore this particular unit has
been surveyed by a NT audio and with new
worlds and all the internals to readjust
it performs Excel the S when new and
that's all
thanks for watching and i hope you
enjoyed this bill bye