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My dad had a Viking transport plugged into the tape head input on a GE tube integrated. Here is a later Viking with a seven tube circuit. Pretty clean but a little too much IMO but fun to look at.
ET
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purchased in 1965. What I remember most about it was its no-hassle reliability (better than my later-purchased Magnecord 1020). Never encountered the hot reel problem Dave mentions, but he's right about the fan noise.
Jim
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Funny coincidence. I also went from my Viking to a 1020. Unlike your experience, my Magnecord was pretty much flawless and I still kinda regret selling it.EDIT: What was your next deck? Mine was a Teac 3000SX. No complaints about that one.
Edits: 06/06/16
There was a long hiatus between my disposal of the 1020 in the early 1970's and my acquisition of a deck last November...a Chuck Ziska-refurb'd Crown SX-824 (7.5 and 3.75 ips). Good to be back in the game.
Jim
http://jimtranr.com
Many older high-output tapes suffer from "sticky shed syndrome". I've actually built an "oven" to deal with that... Two 100 watt light bulbs on a dimmer, and two thermometers. 1/4" tapes need about four hours at 133 degrees F, then they're good for about 3 weeks.
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I was recently gifted with a reel of Ampex 456. I'm keeping the metal reel...to populate with a pancake of Pyral SM911. :-)
Jim
http://jimtranr.com
My first deck was a Roberts (Akai) 1719. Great machine. Then, a Concord with auto-reverse. Not so good. Then, a Tandberg something-or-other, (black faceplate, 7" reel capacity, black meters, green square buttons, full logic), nice deck - shouldn't have sold it. Then a Revox A77 quarter track, then (and now) a Revox A77 Mk IV two track. I'll probably keep it forever.
I've worked with both a Stellavox Sp7 and a Studer A80, and still lust after them, but they've always been out of my budget! The A80 has a scary fast and gentle transport - holy crap!
I currently also own a Tascam 44, which has transport problems. Even so, those TEAC/Tascam decks are very fine machines! Shoulda bought one instead of that stupid Concord!
:)
I had one. After playing tapes for an hour or so, the tape reels got so hot that i feared for their lives. And yeah, the fan was active -- you could tell by the noise :-)
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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