Cassette deck Pioneer CT-S830S

This unit is largely the most-most: the biggest, heaviest, most solid appearance, with the widest range of features, with the highest rates in almost all respects, with the most extensive and diverse display of a word, the very technical excellence, but also and most expensive. Tape drive, follow obliquely recessed cassette cover, also fixed at an angle, in the depths of the machine that looks unusual, but nice.

Motorized loading cassette, made it smoothly and almost silently. The indicator has a stretch mode level scale that is usual for the company in December, allows you to set the recording level is literally up to decibel. But unfortunately, there is no color selection area excess. Perfect and the tape counter, able to work in three modes: standard units, in real time and display balance. Adjusting the recording channel is carried out automatically by the system Super Auto BLE three parameters. But in addition to a fully automatic system, the user is still the possibility of manual correction bias current (± 15 %) displaying on the display. Have the unit and feature a proprietary Flex, designed to improve the subjective play strangers or old entries when the system automatically compensates for the high frequencies. Frankly, for decent records any difference in the sound we did not notice, but bad at hand was not. As disadvantages are the lack of blocking optimizer, small size and inconvenient location level controls and balance records. Although it is clear that it is motivated by design (and looks very harmonious deck), working with them is not very convenient: a few times while writing instead of headphone volume hand she reached for the handle balance. Recordings made on the machine are beautiful, especially with Dolby S. In this case, the differences from the original CD is minimal.