Uher CR 124
A stereo cassette deck that shows up in the British trade press as a line item beside Revoxes and Studers. That says who Uher expected to buy it.
Overview
The documented record for the Uher CR 124 is thin. What survives is not a spec sheet or a bench test. It is a run of dealer advertisements in the British studio-equipment press of the mid-1970s, where the CR 124 turns up as a named model in stock lists otherwise filled with Revox A77s, Studer A80s, and Uher's own 4000-series reel machines. The CR 124 is a stereo cassette unit, and it was sold through the same professional and semi-professional channels as that gear.
No production years, no original retail price, and no published specifications for the CR 124 appear in the available documentation. Collectors will find it in dealer stock lists rather than review columns, since the review literature that survives from the period covers Uher's reel machines, not this one. Contemporary coverage of the cassette format in the same trade press, as in HiFi-Stereo (April 1977, p.60), weighed the format's advantages as nearly overwhelming but not quite. The CR 124's own documentation does not enter that debate.
Researching the CR 124 takes patience, because the paper trail is almost entirely commercial rather than technical. The deck's relationship to Uher's better-documented portable cassette models is not established in the available sources, and no verified specifications, dimensions, or pricing exist to characterize its performance. Anyone chasing one should expect to rely on the unit itself and any surviving service literature rather than published reviews. Confirm condition and completeness directly rather than assuming details from other Uher cassette machines.
For now, the CR 124 stands as a footnote in Uher's cassette history — present in the dealer networks, absent from the review pages. That's not a verdict on the machine, just an accurate description of what the record preserves.
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