b3's head units.

12 December 2017

Green lighted head units, relevant to the cockpit style.

The why of the green, (oem), color is explained here: NATO night vision optimazation.

BLAUPUNKT SYDNEY (toy)

27 May 2021

05 September 2021

 

The Gamma III Syndrome

As the time, for the Passatitsa, to be an old timer car approaches rapidly, there is a need to be original at any aspect. The sweet undercover is to be tuned simultaneously, but within the original limits! Is this possible? Yes in most cases!

 

Here there are two of the original radio cassette  units.

 

The one for the European market, (1992, Gamma III Genesis), down, and the other for the U.S.A. market, (1995, Premium audio, Gamma III derivative), up.

 

 

Strange that the "Premium audio" is declared for the upper unit but the "Gamma III Genesis audio" is not declared for the lower.

You see the lower "Genesis"  is a unit with the capability to drive passive and active speakers but there is no  label reference for that.

 

Both are beautiful units with their black/white/green night lighting orientation and the feeling of their knobs is great, stiff, soft and accurate with clicking noises into the night for any adjustment. The Premium is made in Japan, (Clarion?), and the Genesis is made in Germany by Philips.

 

They are using  aluminum fins, (Premium audio), or a shining copper fat sheet, (Gamma III Genesis), for their cooling:

 

The Premium is a little bit heavier and seems as a better constructed unit.

 

 

 

 

 Their differences are more than their similarities but they are apparent only from their specs and from their inner.

 

 The Gamma III Genesis.

The first one for a service duty will be the Gamma III Genesis using only the four passive channels. Since my Passatitsa came with four speakers I am not going to change it.

It came used with the night vision illumination not working. It was a good chance to change the strange little bulbs with green hats to real pure green leds, to have a vivid night green  illumination as the Gamma IV has.

 

It took to me 70 hours of hard work! Because trying to take out the original bulbs damages to the tiny switches and their PCB board were unavoidable.

 

But the result is worthy! Please, you, Gamma constructors, at 1992, put in original green leds! Do you hear me, Perfect You? 

 

Lights on, please!

 

 

 

Here is the same unit with the original green, (almost), illumination:

 

(to be continued) 

  

 

 07 September 2021

 The Gamma III family.

 

 

Radio  CD players:

Genesis

 Radio cassette players:

 

 

( This one may be Genesis without logo).

 Genesis

 

 

 

 (Source:
Serie: gamma I-IV (D) - cabrio-aigner.de).

 

 

 

20 August 2024

 

 Finally, this is my thesis statement:

 

 

Here is a North American edition of a vw (Panasonic), Premium radio cassette, (Gamma III for Europe), playing a maxwell metal tape, installed into a Passat b35i Syncro g60, (1992).

 The demonstration is, just, to saw, the way it is working and not for a sound quality estimation, since the receiver, a mobile phone, is a, very, restrictive,  bottle neck, (less of 10% of data are coming to you, mono mode vs stereo, and this only if you wear your headphones).

 The premium radio cassette, by Panasonic, is of a heavy duty construction and works, perfectly, without repairs, (not even the belt is changed), 32 years after, and with a high fidelity sound, @ 4x20 rms watts.

The specific cassette, written by the use of an Aiwa AD-WX808, from a cd/dvd Sony DVP-NS32, is a maxwell, metal type, SQ-90, and is recognized, instantly, by the cassette player, which, automatically, adjusts the bias, (MTL). You can choose to play with or without dolby II, (this demonstration is without dolby). In my home stereo, there is no difference, in the sound fidelity, vs the cd.  

Using it for my car, there is more than enough, in terms of quality reproduction, when, simultaneously, my precious cd disks remain brand new, without scratches at all.  But there are more:

#1 The sound is not disturbed by the road shocks, (cd).

#2 The sound is not disturbed by bad fm or gsm reception.

#3 The sound is not disturbed by static currents, (fm transmitter).

 #4 Much better than USB stick playing, digitally, through fm transmitter.

 #5 No data loss, they remain available for other duties, (mobile gsm).

#6  The cassettes give the opportunity, to the artist and creator of the music, to keep his identity, and not to be lost between a thousand musics all over the sources, (usb stick).

 #7  No digital identity can press you to change your operating system, or your browser, since they do not like it, or you,(windows xp).

#8 You can record something else, keeping the same physical body, the cassette, if you like, which is not  the case with the rewritable cd's, since they are not recognized by the system, always.

#9 You can run, simultaneously, two music programs, and interchange the hearing between them, by pressing a button, as in my video. In this cassette there are written two cds':

side a: WAR "The world is a ghetto".

 side b: PINK MARTINI: "Splendor in the grass".

The reproduction is flat, dolby off, both for the recording and playing. 

 

 

 

Thank you for your time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Syncro Heresy