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How about a listing of the tape decks we've owned?
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Posted on June 7, 2016 at 05:44:20 | ||
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The Viking thread encouraged this. My own saga starts in the mid 1950s and continues today. Big time. In order, with comments. "*" means I still own it. * Revere T700D, 2-track mono. This was in pre-stereo days. * Viking 88, as noted below, my first stereo deck, tubed. * Magnecord 1020, one of whose features was that it took 8 1/4" reels (try to find one). * Teac 3300SX, a quality machine, first one I owned that could take large reels. * Teac X1000R, bought new in 1984 out of the trunk of a car in the NSA parking lot, from a GI who had bought it in an Okinawa PX for resale when he returned stateside. True story. * Teac A2300SD* (Dolby), bought to play my Barclay-Crocker tapes after 3 or 4 outboard Dolby units (Teac and Nakamichi) proved deficient or died outright. * Otari MX5050 BII-2*, an outstanding deck with great sonics, made greater by modding to accept a deHaviland 222 tubed tapehead preamp. * Revox A77 Mk. IV Dolby, an utter disaster/lemon (caps exploded, caught on fire), bought to replace the Teac A2300SD, which I bought back after giving up on the Revox. Most recent tape purchase, a supposed "safety master" of a Chet Baker trio album that competes for best-sounding tape in my collection. |
RE: How about a listing of the tape decks we've owned?, posted on June 20, 2016 at 13:49:36 | |
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Add ZX-9 to my list. Just BIN'd one. |
Crown 800 series, posted on June 7, 2016 at 14:45:23 | |
Just fyi, you don't have to continually rub it in my face. Those decks were tits. :) |
:-) -nt, posted on June 7, 2016 at 18:34:54 | |
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. Jim |