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In Reply to: MORE)))If you just used the Crown deck for playback.... posted by grhughes on December 19, 2006 at 07:45:59:
This deck in my collection hands down wins the most scrape/flutter devices ever put on a tape deck :)Its a Telex/Magnecord 3000, the last model reel to reel produced by them.
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Wow!Dave, I have one of these in mint cond
Anything I should know about it?
Do you have any lit?
Regards,
The only literature I have is an old Telex brochure that shows several pieces of 70s broadcast equipment they offered. It doesn't really say much about it though just a thumbnail pic and basic specs. These seem to be the hardest Magnecord models to find, I even see them come up less often than the 728,748,1028,1048 machines. It seems to be really well made the transport is sort of a 1022/1024 on steroids. Even uses the same pinch roller. I'm not really impressed with the tiny VU meters though. The electronics are completely dual mono however unlike the 1022/1024 where the electronics shared the same power supply. The rocker switches are kinda cheesy also I think. Like the 1022/1024 it has a spot for a 2nd playback head also. At least they did the right thing and made it to take 10.5 reels...
I picked this one up about a year ago for $56.00One of those "in a haystack deals"
Read they sold new for $1,329.00
Thanks,
Yes they were not cheap machines when new. I paid $22 for mine on fleabay but was another $40 to ship it here. It seems to be in pretty decent shape with no visible head wear but the entire machine could use a good cleaning.
More useless Magnecord history. In the 70s Telex sued IBM claiming anti-trust violations and not only lost the suit but was counter sued by IBM and Telex lost and by that time they were in such bad shape financially that Memorex merged with them and later themselves went belly up (in '96).
Magnecord also supplied reel to reel trasports to companies that built digital tape drives for computers in the 60s and 70s.
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