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I bet you don't have one of these in your collections yet?...with a price tag of € 11.999,00 (RRP). it is not cheap...
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...that there is no audio circuit inside? Just the connection to external preamp.
But that would be OK... what I can't accept is the cheap stamped head cover of a machine of that price. Surely, they should be able to afford a die cast part.
That's easy for you to say as you're going to be using your very own designed head amp so, you're set. But for us lackeys that's a tough pill to swallow for that kind of money to spend on an incomplete reel-to-reel machine...
No matter that you can get a much better vintage machine for much less, this is new, so it is "even more better".
So there will be buyers... for machines like this one, for the Ballfinger, the Metaxas and AAD, and that is entirely their business.
There is now a $70K head preamp on the market... all the stops are being pulled.
I know what you mean but for $70K just for a head amp I wonder if it will improve the performance of the Studer A 80/R reel-to-reel machine which costs just as much on its own.Perhaps, it's time to revisit your head amp design now that you have a competition.
Edits: 06/12/24
That was the last generation of Studers that sounded at least half-decent. It was all downhill from there.
It is like a gorgeous wife who hates sex.
as good as the Studer machines were Stephen's reel-to-reel machine is a bit better soundwise when it comes to multi-track recordings.
Too bad they didn't make consumer version models...
Decades ago, when I was reading books on tape deck design, that approach was described as ideal. And it is close... when you limit the operation to just Play mode. But when you start rewinding, that puts too much stress on the tape - compare that to the straight line rewind path on some other machines. Yes, you can reduce that stress by avoiding the tape lifters, to some degree, but it is still going to be there.
You probably know that 3M made such machines... I don't know if that was in some way connected to Stephens.
In 1971---Stephens recorders came out with a no capstan and no pinch roller design. Looked a lot like 3m machines. I've read they were extremely gentle on tape...but as you said not so much on the rewinding operations.
Pretty much everyone there agrees that the Studers were superior in their function and tape handling, but that Stephens had much better sound.
I like the Ampex MM1200. It's got slam!
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It's one of the reasons many of the bands that came out in the 70s and 80s use it to record their album because of its sound quality. Such as Steely Dan, Grateful Dead, Queen, heck even Neil Diamond just to name a few...Steely Dan's classic album Aja was recorded on Stephens' 24-track...
Edits: 06/14/24
What a blast from the past! Way back in the mid-70s, I attended an AES convention in Los Angeles as a student member. John Stephens was there displaying his multi-track decks. Nice guy that he was, he drove me over to a studio (I don't remember if it was The Producer's Workshop or The Mastering Lab), where they had one of his 40-track (yes, 40!) decks running at 30 ips.I was duly impressed, and still grateful for his kindness.
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Edits: 06/13/24
I can afford it...
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