BETA
RADAR is in beta — expect errors. Accuracy and coverage improvements are shipping daily.
LIVE
Waiting for new listings…
0 other audiophiles online

Seller's Description

Ich habe ein UHER CG 343 Stereo abzugeben. Das Gerät ist sehr sauber und gepflegt, hat keine Mängel und funktioniert einwandfrei. Falls jemand Interesse oder Bedarf hat, gerne bei mir melden.

Our Thoughts RADAR AI

Compared with a modern €200 cassette deck, this is really buying a vintage Uher on reputation and serviceability rather than spec-sheet performance. For the CG 343 specifically, the going used market looks more like roughly €75–€135, with cleaner examples sometimes pushing a bit higher, so €200 is ambitious unless it’s unusually complete, freshly serviced, and cosmetically excellent.

What makes it appealing is the solid, well-built German-era engineering and the fact that the CG 343 sits in that sweet spot of serious late-70s cassette decks: proper transport, decent specs, and enough charm to be worth owning if you actually play tapes. The upside is best when the deck is working quietly, has stable speeds, and includes the original accessories; otherwise, age-related belt, idler, and switch issues can quickly eat the value, so at this price I’d want proof of recent service and excellent function.

Independent perspective — not a price guarantee. Always verify condition, accessories and provenance before purchase.

About Uher

Uher is a German audio brand founded in Munich in 1953, with roots in the work of inventor Edmund Uher and the UHER Werke company. It began as an industrial and equipment manufacturer before moving into consumer and professional audio, becoming especially associated with durable German-built tape machines. The brand’s postwar identity was built on engineering rather than glamour, and its most important legacy comes from the era when portable recording was becoming essential to broadcasters and field journalists.

Uher is best known for open-reel tape recorders, especially the portable Report series, along with other tape decks and some hi-fi and dictation equipment. It was not primarily a speaker, turntable, DAC, or headphone brand in the modern sense, and those categories are not where its reputation was made. Instead, Uher specialized in rugged, practical analogue recorders aimed at serious users who needed reliable performance away from the studio.

In the market, Uher sits firmly in the vintage and collector category today. Its classic machines are valued for build quality, portability, and historical significance, rather than for current high-end audiophile status. For buyers, Uher is less a contemporary hi-fi brand than a respected name from the golden age of analogue recording, with strongest appeal to restorers, archivists, broadcasters, and vintage-audio enthusiasts.

See all Uher listings on RADAR.

More CG 343 listings