PhilippeC Posted October 12, 2011 Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 just see on eBay UK Grundig MDC-65 Minidisc & CD Combi Deck http://cgi.ebay.fr/G...0#ht_500wt_1204 No idea Grundig made one MD deck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim.hoggarth Posted October 12, 2011 Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 The Grundig decks are strange. The build quality is tatty, the front plastics feel cheap, the metalwork seems less refined, and the circuit boards use that awful dark brown SRBP material, with all the capacitors wonky and misplaced, very reminiscent of the cheapest transistor radios that came out of HK and China in the seventies. BUT - the drives are whatever they could get hold of, and unbelievably the MD drive they chose to use (or Sony managed to offload on them) for all the Grundig gear I have seen so far is exactly the same unit as Sony used in their top-end professional 19" rack units such as the MDS-E10, E11, E12 etc. Very surprising! Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippeC Posted October 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 So maybe it sound good too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ_Palmer Posted October 13, 2011 Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 My first ever MD deck was a Grundig MD-CD combo in about 2000. Not sure if it was this exact model, but was something similar. Definitely looked and felt cheap and nasty, with loud and clunky drives. Eventually, after a couple of years something broke. Can't remember what went exactly, possibly the CD drive mechanism or display but it ended up in the local charity shop. Since then it's been Sony decks all the way. Those were the days.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippeC Posted October 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 My first ever MD deck was a Grundig MD-CD combo in about 2000. Do you remember if it had a good sound compare to your Sony deck arriving just after ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ_Palmer Posted October 14, 2011 Report Share Posted October 14, 2011 It didn't sound too bad at all if I recall correctly, with either CD or MD, perhaps a little bit on the thin weedy side, if I can put it like that. The Sony (it was an MDS-JE640 which I still have up and running), seemed to have more presence, probably owing to ATRAC Type-R and better circuit components as Jim mentions. Might be worth while picking one up if you can get it cheap, though I'm pretty sure now having thought about it, that it was the CD drive that went on mine, rendering its CD-MD dubbing credentials worthless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimma Posted October 24, 2011 Report Share Posted October 24, 2011 A few years ago my brother had a Grundig mini system with cd, md and tuner. It was from quite high up their range so the build quality was pretty good and it looked nice. The md deck recorded and played back well and it sounded far nicer than I ever would have expected. Sadly when he moved house the removal company dropped it and that was the end of that. I still have the floor standing speakers that came with it though. They are in my kitchen and sound great powered by my Sony CHC-CL5MD bookshelf system. Considerably better than the speakers that came with the Sony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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