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In Reply to: RE: "Starter Deck" posted by Dave Pogue on September 27, 2014 at 14:52:53
I owned a Teac X-1000R and a Revox A77. Both were brand new at the time and I personally biased and equalized both for Scotch 207, which was one of the best tapes available in those days. There was no comparison between the Teac and the Revox; the Revox kicked the Teac's ass.
I don't know what the problems was with your A77, but I owned two of them and they were perhaps the best consumer tape deck every made. I think you just had to know how to adjust them properly. I was a PMEL tech at the time and I had access to fully equipped electronic laboratory. The Revox A77 was a class act.
Best regards,
John Elison
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I owned an X-1000R too. My tech at that time, who also worked on the older Teac A2300SD, said the X-1000R was not as well built as the older Teac. It certainly didn't sound any better, or as good. My Revox was a comedy of errors. Three trips to my current tech who keeps the Otari and older Teac in shape, first for the exploding caps, then for the fire it had, then to see if he couldn't, somehow, make it sound at least as good as that Teac.
The whole idea had been to replace the older Teac with the Revox, and the more he and I tried to make that happen, the less it seemed likely until I finally bit the bullet and gave up on it after spending real close to $1K on it. When I did give up, it had pristine heads, a new pinch roller, new lights (without which its end-of-tape stop doesn't work). It never equalled the Teac A2300SD sonically (both were Dolby decks, by the way) and never came within light years of sounding as good as my Otari. I've never been so frustrated with a piece of gear in my life.
"I did like the way you linked Studer and Revox with that slash thingie, like they were in the same league."
Living here in the States, that's how the company was generally referred to, although, I do concede that Willi Studer didn't include the "slash" character in the company's marketing. It was just a "space". Sorry about the slash.
Still, an Otari will never touch it, sound-wise.
Sorry to read about your unfortunate experience with your tech.
:)
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