Onkyo Integra TA-2047 stereo cassette tape deck

Walk around the Onkyo ta 2047. Dates from around 1987.

[Vores-Faelles]

yes - it's a VERY good machine from Onkyo!
(thought-fully constructed, with sense of detail and actual usability!)

I had it from 1986 and forward. It lasted for appr. 20 years. (after which, I bought the same model second hand, that I had until I copied all tapes over to PC (mp3), and it unfortunately was lost in a fire).
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I used the first one A LOT (I did wear it down).

The extra cool details :

- a superp recording-quality !!! ... it was hard to tell the difference between the original and the recording!
(which was FAR FROM normal back then - normally tape-recordings had all kinds of faults - such as "much less treble", "muddy sound", etc.).

- Remain-time Counter. With that, I made a print-template, and printed out back-side inserts (like on cd-roms), and on them was where every song started ... and with the counter, I could find the songs, without fast-reversing and then fast-forwarding.
(I just pressed "rema" and then went to the right point, and bum! the wanted song could be played!)

- And, Dolby-C was adjusted/calibrated just right - giving silence and perfect sound, at the same time!!
(dolby B was also good, but I did not use it - because I wanted the extra 10dB silence).

So - thanks for your review, and uploading it!... I could see, that you didn't really know the details...
(so I wanted to "fill-in" and give extra justice to this special gem!).

"Rema": Choose "Rema", and the right tape-size (fx. 2x45min: "90min"), and get it to calculate - and it will show the time tha tis left, on this side of the tape.

Filters :
- Mpx: Took away high-pitch sounds from FM-etc, in order not to "confuse the dolby-circuit and generate other interferences,
- Subsonic: Filtered out low-frequency tones/rumble (from record-players), in order to not over-saturate the the tape with in-audible content.

Repeat-etc (the multi-selector at the top-left):
- was ahead of it's time.
- because besides repeat, it also could make the tape-recorder start playing, when power was turned on (to use as for instance an "alarm clock", such as a "clock-radio") - fully utilizing the "relay-control" (the "soft-touch" control, with magnets doing the "play-start work").

So - really a cool device...
Especially for a 20 y.ol. tech-nerd like me, in the 80's.