Stenocord Dictation Tape Recorder Format from Austria

WoW!
I have never seen this one! Nice find!
The way you push the cassette to operate it is unique!

Germanium transistors and I would guess a LM701 opamp in there as well as audio gain stage. Would guess that some of the volume issues come from leaking dipped tantalum capacitors in the audio side, as those little ones are rather notorious for having leakage with age.

Nur only seulement Leak Proof Batterien! 😃😃

red swirly bits are so the tape dosent stick to the sides of the caddy

Well, finally something good from our country. ;)

Cool! I'm from Austria

Just when you think you've seen every type of tape recorder.... Surprise!

Great video. Cassette are my favourite format by far so the more videos you do on them the better.

I love the unique control functions by pressing the cassette itself

Something Techmoan missed out.

Interesting, yesterday I thought of you and your YT chanel and today there's a video...

The background music is so calming, what's the name of it?

So cool.
If someone just handed me that thing, I would have never thought to push on the cassette to make it play and rewind.

Send it to techmoan ;)

Did you notice the washer that was dropped underneath the flywheel?

Ohey, there’s my country 👌

It is simultaneously fascinating, clever, and absolutely dreadful.

I had feeling that you have put minecraft music to this video. Nevertheless I really liked it.

Everyone buy one quick, before Techmoan does a video on it and the prices shoot up 1000x.

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Bad caps would explain low volume and slow motor but I'm just guessing

The spirit music seems out of place.

Never put an magnetic screawdivier close to the "head". It can cause a erasion of the tape.

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For a channel that focuses a lot on recording mediums, you audio levels are always WAY to low. The quality is fine, but the levels are to soft. Just thought id mention it.

Interesting stuff! I know Philips later had a factory in Austria, I wonder if there is a connection.

I have an earlier model of the same format with the original box and instruction. This model made by Stuzzi was the last gasp of the format that started with another "Stenocord" of a different design about 1965.