I'm doing tapedeck revisions in Germany and this is my regular tapehead I use for replacement. Be aware that with very few tapedecks the erase bias may be to low, most likely because the original tapehead's impedance was higher (e.g. 300 ohms with Pioneer CT-200) than that of DYNY62 (240 ohms). I also had erase problems with Philips 3537 tapedeck when using DYNY62. Thus it makes always sense to check impedance of old tapehead BEFORE replacing it. If the tapehead does not match 100% the effect is that old tapes are not fully erased (you hear - in low volume - the old recording coming through). In 95% of my vintage tapedecks this head fits. Frequency response is excellent, hard permalloy housing looks good to me, but I don't have longterm abrasion data yet.
I'm doing tapedeck revisions in Germany and this is my regular tapehead I use for replacement. Be aware that with very few tapedecks the erase bias may be to low, most likely because the original tapehead's impedance was higher (e.g. 300 ohms with Pioneer CT-200) than that of DYNY62 (240 ohms). I also had erase problems with Philips 3537 tapedeck when using DYNY62. Thus it makes always sense to check impedance of old tapehead BEFORE replacing it. If the tapehead does not match 100% the effect is that old tapes are not fully erased (you hear - in low volume - the old recording coming through). In 95% of my vintage tapedecks this head fits. Frequency response is excellent, hard permalloy housing looks good to me, but I don't have longterm abrasion data yet.