This is tested and it works perfectly. All belts , buttons, controls, lights work. This sounds great. I cleaned the heads. FF, Rew, play, record all work flawlessly. Lots of beat up 30 year old cassette decks out here,.. but not this one. This is in excellent shape with low miles.
The Sharp RT-115 is a single cassette deck from the late 1980s. It has a decent feature set for a basic deck — especially if you like simple vintage gear with analog VU meters and manual controls
Single cassette deck
2-head design (combined record/play head + erase head)
1 motor transport
Dolby B noise reduction
Supports:
Normal tape
Chrome (CrO₂)
Metal tape
Manual tape type selection
No auto reverse
No fancy computerized controls
Analog VU meters and mechanical tape counter
Dimensions & Weight
390 × 118 × 220 mm
About 2.6 kg (5.7 lbs)
warm fidelity
Simple analog presentation
Excellent playback with metal tapes
Good for mixtapes and vintage systems
The frequency response is
Up to 16 kHz on metal tape
15 kHz on chrome
14 kHz on normal tape
Big classic 1980s look
Real VU meters
Front mic inputs
Headphone jack
Easy to service mechanically
Lightweight
Metal tape compatibility
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