What was your reel-to-reel history?

[337alant]

Fantastic collection there love it

Alan

[337alant]

Back on track here is my Studer A810 playing a bit of Bowie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7aHH_EFG8A


Alan

[Made in 1968]

Nice Al..

Noticed the Tascam '122' I used to have a '133'. I love bobbin VU's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOwNMP_oMvs

[337alant]

Nice Al..

Noticed the Tascam '122' I used to have a '133'. I love bobbin VU's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOwNMP_oMvs

Hi Andrey yes very nice those 133's
The Tascam 122 mk2 & Mk3 are a very seriously good cassette deck best I have owned so far.
I also recently bought a Tandberg TCD 440A cassette which is also supposed to be very good but I need to fix some faults and calibrate it before I can here it at its best
https://www.google.com/search?q=tand...x6jONxoPeBArM:

Alan

[Made in 1968]

Aye those Tandbergs were great but the sideways entry for the cassette used to do my head in..

'234' was good too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe9NbPfWPh0

[Barry]

It sure is. My two Sony APR 5000 series machines are probably my favourites - gentle tape transport (albeit forced guidance rather than precision guidance on the Studer A820), really flexible software driven calibration with 3 presets for each tape speed (3.75 thru to 30 IPS) and great stock electronics.

Can you explain the difference between the two?

[Barry]

Aye those Tandbergs were great but the sideways entry for the cassette used to do my head in..

'234' was good too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe9NbPfWPh0

The Nakamichi 700 machines used sideways cassette entry.

[Primare]

Alan,
This is a nice room full of toys and vinyl.
And the R2R looks like another level
Ivo

[400v on the anode]

Aiwa TP1002
Telefunken Magnetophon 75
Grundig TK23
Telefunken 201
Akai 4000DS*
Revox A77*
Philips N4450
Akai M7
Akai 1800SS*
Ferrograph series 4HS
Ferrograph series 3*
Ferrograph SP7*
Revox A700*
Machines marked * I still have and use regularly except the Ferrograph series 3 and the Akai 1800SS both of which need work.

[337alant]

Impressive collection Graham
I was offered a Ferrograph S7 last year, lovely looking machine and my mate at work had one in the 70s and it was the first serious HIFI R2R I had seen and heard, but turned it down, just a bit to old for me and not much in the way of spares.
I still use a Ferrograph distortion analyser for my R2Rs calibration though and it's a cracking instrument

IMG_2957 by Alan Towell, on Flickr
Alan