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2nd Jan 2019, 8:10 pm | #1 |
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Telefunken Magnetophon 75 copying tapes
New to the site. I've tried searching but cannot find info I'm looking for apologies if it is already there.
I have a Telefunken Magnetophon 75 reel to reel unit and a selection of 50 year old tapes which I would like to transfer to my PC. I have a TEVION USB music/audio converter with 3.5mm jack input & software. Is it possible to connect to the Magnetophon DIN plug connections? If yes can you advise what pins to use and interconnection details to 3.5mm jack. Thanks in advance, Paul. |
2nd Jan 2019, 8:51 pm | #2 |
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Re: Telefunken Magnetophon 75 copying tapes
Sure....
DIN Pin 2 connects to sleeve 3.5m Jack DIN Pin 3 connects to tip 3.5mm Jack DIN Pin 5 connects to ring 3.5mm Jack Connect DIN to radio socket on tape recorder, 3.5mm Jack to line input of PC. Hope that helps. |
2nd Jan 2019, 10:49 pm | #3 |
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Re: Telefunken Magnetophon 75 copying tapes
Normally I would just put the 3.5mm jack into the line in on the sound card.
Copying a VHS cassette does require a contraption that goes into a USB port. |
3rd Jan 2019, 2:39 am | #4 |
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Re: Telefunken Magnetophon 75 copying tapes
see this sticky thread, especially posts 3 and 7
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5th Jan 2019, 6:17 pm | #5 |
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Re: Telefunken Magnetophon 75 copying tapes
Thanks for the info.
I'm still not sure which socket to use. On the back of the unit there is a 5 pin DIN socket labelled RADIO & a 5 pin DIN socket labelled STOP also there is a small 3 pin rectangular socket labelled EARPHONES. Inside the cover there is a 5 pin DIN socket labelled MICRO and a 3 pin DIN socket with a speaker symbol. I assume its either the EARPHONE 3 PIN at the back or the speaker 3PIN inside with speaker symbol. Thanks. |
6th Jan 2019, 12:26 pm | #6 |
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Re: Telefunken Magnetophon 75 copying tapes
I'd say try the Radio socket - this was to allow recording from, and playback through, a radio receiver. Stop is for some sort of remote control, Micro will be input only, Earphones and Speaker will come off the output stage, which will give inferior results to preamplifier output available on the Radio socket.
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6th Jan 2019, 2:52 pm | #7 |
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Re: Telefunken Magnetophon 75 copying tapes
According to the circuit diagram on HifiEngine :
You can get a line-level output from pin 3 of the 'radio' socket. This is shown as a 3 pin DIN socket. Pin 2 is of course ground. You can get much the same signal (higher level as there's an attenuator to the radio socket, but it comes from the same amplifier stage) at pin 2 of the earphone socket, pin 3 being ground, but I suspect getting a plug to fit that is non-trivial. Note that 3 pin DIN sockets have the pins numbered in order 1-2-3. 5 pin ones have the order 1-4-2-5-3 meaning that a 3 pin plug in a 5 pin socket connets to pins 1,2,3 in the obvious way. The 'speaker' socket does indeed come from the amplifier output stage and will be an inferior-quality signal to the one on the 'radio' socket. Do not use the microphone socket. There is no audio output here. But there is a polarising voltage for condenser microphones on pin 3 (HT+ line via a 22M resistor) which some devices might take a dislike to. And the 'Stop' socket seems to be for a remote pause control (connected between pins 1 and 3 of the socket). |
14th Jan 2019, 9:10 pm | #8 |
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Re: Telefunken Magnetophon 75 copying tapes
Thanks for the advice.
The Telefunken Magnetophon 75 belt drive is broken. It looks like somebody replaced the belt with a rubber band in the past and it has disintegrated. Can someone help with the dimensions of the drive belt Please? |