JVC KD-85 CASSETTE DECK - 1978 VINTAGE, TESTED!

Having a SALE on a few special pieces.

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Here's a cool, heavy-duty cassette deck from the 1970s: the JVC KD-85. This one had been stored in a road case when it came to us (hence the rack handles), and overall is nice and clean. There's some aging on the metal of the handles, but the actual face of the unit is in great shape. Our veteran tech went through and made sure everything was working great.

From HiFi Engine:
The JVC KD-85 Stereo Cassette Deck always lets you make a perfect recording. Damage to tapes and mechanism is also avoided.

Besides that, the JVC KD-85 is a beautiful machine to behold. Its a visual pleasure. a JVC design coup which, among other extras, includes a Spectro Peak Indicator.

Superb specifications include a 30 to 16,000Hz frequency response with chrome tape, a better than 56dB signal to noise ratio with ANRS off and 0.05% wrms wow/flutter. Those figures are roughly comparable to open-reel performance parameters.

The KD-85 uses the best mechanism ever conceived for a cassette deck - the two-motor ID mechanism. In this configuration, two motors are employed to insure stable tape transport: a frequency generator servomotor for capstan drive and a DC motor for reel drive.

Because each drive mechanism operates independently of the other, and because its operation is thus simplified, the KD-85 achieves a very, very low wow/flutter of less than 0.05% wrms.

Full logic control of the KD-85 is the job of three dependable TTL ICs - one custom made MSI type and two TTL ICs. These controls permit direct changing of modes with a light push of buttons which requires only a 6mm stroke. Memory Stop facility is also included.

Specifications:

Type: 2-head, single compact cassette deck

Track System: 4-track, 2-channel stereo

Tape Speed: 4.8 cm/s

Heads: 1 x record/playback, 1 x erase

Motor: frequency controlled DC servo

Tape Type: type I, FeCr, CrO2

Noise Reduction: ANRS

Frequency Response: 30Hz to 16kHz  (Cr02 tape)

Signal to Noise Ratio: 61dB  (ANRS)

Wow and Flutter: 0.05%

Total Harmonic Distortion: 0.4%

Input: 80mV (line), 0.2mV (mic)

Output: 0.5V (line)

Semiconductors: 18 x IC, 65 x transistors, 94 x diodes, 5 x zener diodes

Dimensions: 450 x 158 x 327mm

Weight: 9.9kg

Year: 1978

Ships fast and insured.

Unit weighs 33lbs

Shipping dimensions: 39 lbs, 25"x20"x12"

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Visit out website to see the long list of celebrity musicians and groups we have met and serviced in the past 40 years. 

NOTE: Too cool. We just shipped very recently this summer a 1967 MapleGlo Rickenbacker 6-12 Converter 'comb' guitar to Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins! We also then shipped a vintage 50 watt Marshall head to L.A. studio-touring guitarist extraodinaire, Michael Landau, and 2 vintage guitars to Jack White's organization down in Nashville just a few days before his 50th. birthday! mmm? Add 'The Kentucky Head Hunters' to the list, just sold Greg a cool little 50's Valco tube combo amp!

Gordy's Music has become a Detroit institution! Our shop was used as a filming location for a few films like "Miracle in Motor City" a Christmas movie on Lifetime (featuring Smoky Robinson). We've supplied gear for movies including "Bill & Ted Face The Music" with Keanu Reeves. We've got decades of celebrity customers, including recent visits from Beck, Eric Johnson, and we recently sold Billy Joel's bassist a cool Gibson SG he is in love with. One day a while back Andre 3000 and his group stopped in to browse as they were playing Masonic Temple that night and right after that we sold an old oil can Morley Wah Vibrato pedal to Credence Clearwater Revival's thee John Fogerty!

We are having and have had a lot of fun here at Gordy's Music! I was just remembering about 35 years ago a tour bus pulled up to our little shop, and who rolls right in and hangs out for an hour? Lenny Kravitz and his entire group, right about the same time I was selling many guitars to and chauffeuring around Dee Dee Ramone who had an apartment a block down from my house.