Things to be aware of...

Posted by grhughes on January 26, 2007 at 10:35:40

In Reply to: NEWB here looking into a R2R for first time posted by Mark W. on January 25, 2007 at 21:50:08:

The avaliability of blank R2R tape is iffy and it's future doubtful. However, pre-recorded tapes made prior to 1966 are very good HI-FI and Doc Bottlehead and others are trying to revive it albeit at very high prices for a single tape.

The Revox-Studer Company of Switzerland is still in business and you can get tape heads for any of the Revox machines. Custom heads are also expensive but can be had from JRF Magnetics. I'd avoid all other Japanese machine except for the Techniks RS1500 or the Otari MX5050. You also need to think about two type of Equalization; NAB and CCIR-IEC. The NAB EQ for the pre-recorded USA tapes and the CCIR_IEC for European or newer tapes. The Swiss machines and the more modern Japanese machines will accomodate both.
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Topic - NEWB here looking into a R2R for first time - Mark W. 21:50:08 01/25/07 (14)

Re: NEWB I bought one tonight - Mark W. 21:43:51 01/26/07 (4)

Cool! Nice looking deck.. Enjoy it Mark ;-) (nt) - marc-homeslice 10:52:05 01/28/07 (0)

I have one just like that. - soundnut 15:34:47 01/27/07 (2)

Re: I have one just like that. - Mark W. 17:08:12 01/27/07 (1)

Those Pioneers are a nice machine. - soundnut 17:11:43 01/27/07 (0)

Re: NEWB here looking into a R2R for first time - Mark W. 16:11:43 01/26/07 (0)

this newbie just starting out - sober1 13:42:21 01/26/07 (0)

Things to be aware of... - grhughes 10:35:40 01/26/07 (2)

the availability of new tape is not at all iffy! this has been discussed so many times over! - danny kaey 10:13:22 01/28/07 (0)

A note about tape head availability - Dave Pogue 11:01:07 01/26/07 (0)

Hi.. also a newbie, but one observation.. - marc-homeslice 08:34:37 01/26/07 (0)

Re: NEWB here looking into a R2R for first time - Dave Pogue 07:42:40 01/26/07 (0)

Re: NEWB here looking into a R2R for first time - Sour milk moon 03:51:03 01/26/07 (1)

Re: NEWB here looking into a R2R for first time - Sour milk moon 09:16:22 01/26/07 (0)

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Things to be aware of... - grhughes 10:35:40 01/26/07 (2)

the availability of new tape is not at all iffy! this has been discussed so many times over! - danny kaey 10:13:22 01/28/07 (0)

A note about tape head availability - Dave Pogue 11:01:07 01/26/07 (0)

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