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In Reply to: RE: Viking anyone? posted by Awe-d-o-file on May 26, 2016 at 18:34:01
Viking! Holy camoly, there's a name I had nearly forgotten!
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Per my memory of the consumer decks (which most of them were), they used "felt like" pressure pads to push the tape up against the heads when playing/recording. Non starter today.
Did make an impressive looking large reel, 15ips, rack mounted "pro deck" that I saw in a high school AV setup.
Charles
The use of pressure pads would qualify the Viking as a good choice for playing 4-track tapes with ripple.
My college had a Viking 88 in every library listening room. The playback head was physically switchable to play 2- or 4-track tapes. They sounded great. The console in which they were mounted had an H. H. Scott amp, a manual Garrard turntable with that miserable GE stereo cartridge, and unidentified speakers.
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