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In Reply to: RE: Many cassette decks in the past posted by Victor Khomenko on June 03, 2024 at 07:31:24
I have had the Revox B215 restored and recalibrated which is my go-to machine so far it has been performing amazingly well with no issues whatsoever. The other decks such as the Nakamichi 680ZX and the Marantz SD 4000 will need some attention to make them sing properly again...
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I always liked its looks... I know a guy who might have one, will ask him.
I bought both of them knowing that they would need restorations. Ultimately, I have them both restored simultaneously, a while ago which is good because obtaining their parts is getting scarce by the minute.
Spent the money on another beast. :(
You know what they say you snooze you lose...Don't tell me you purchased one of these again...
...you know you are getting your money's worth.
With Nagra... not so much. :)
I love them, though... I think I have four of them, three different models.
"Yes, Sir, that's my baby!"
Are you talking about this 180lb. machine?...
I have some old Ampexes, but not THAT old. :) They are lovely, though.Note the Lyrec tape counter on the right... I had one like that once, but it would only count up, never down... perhaps was meant to measure the inflation. Interesting piece, actually.
BTW, the machine in your picture cost $64K in today's money when it was originally sold in 1948, I believe... purchased by Bing Crosby, who single handedly launched the company.
Edits: 06/06/24
I should have known better...
I bet you don't have one of these...Nevermind.
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Looks like the precursor to the AG-440. Do you have one or three of those, too? ;) Back in the day, it was a workhorse in radio stations across the country. Build like a tank, but sonically nothing special. It was our workhorse machine in the A/V department back in college. I don't miss it, rugged as it was. ;)Do I spy an MCI 2-channel in the corner? They were pretty good decks - not excellent - but pretty good. That is, except for the gap scatter. You didn't want to record on or mix down 16 channels on it, unless you recorded, edited and mixed on the same machine, unless you had measured your deck's gap alignment and knew which tracks "played nice" with each other. (HF phase and cancellation issues.)
Carry on. :)
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Edits: 06/09/24
Apparently, many people loved the MCI's, even though their reliability was not the greatest. It is an interesting machine, I love mine.
Yes, I do have the 440 series, mine is the 445, the playback only machine with a 2 track - 4 track switch. You are right, the electronics, mostly responsible for the sound, is not great at all, but I use it with the external preamp.
Johnny Cash used this model to record his mono recordings at Sun Records.
The drive was all I got.
Lyrec RB-02 reel-to-reel machine, don't tell me you don't have one of these if so why not?
I just love the minimalistic look of it.
Yes, I have it, and his sister Frida, both very special machines.
But this one, called Fred, is designed for the special purpose - editing in the field, so it is not really a great sounding machine, but it is versatile, has the size of a briefcase and weighs about as much. A lovely piece, but doesn't even have the outpputs.
Here is the one I have, with the outputs added.
I've always thought the Lyrec decks were aesthetically beautiful machines. Never used one or heard or seen specs, but they sure looked nice.
But I'm still partial to the Studer A80 VU as the most elegant-looking deck ever, even though the Ampex ATR-101 and 102 outperform it sonically.
There was a time when I really, really wanted an Ampex ATR or an A80, but I'm over it now. What would I do with it? Play 30 - 50 year old tapes? Record birds in the back yard? :( :)
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We have something we didn't 30 years ago - many high quality prerecorded tapes. 15ips, 2tr recordings of very, very high caliber, possibly the best available media today.
You can also record the hi-res streaming, it sounds better that way.
Like you, I do my recordings now from QOBUZ and or TIDAL hi-rez streaming using Audirvana as the interface. My favorite music is being recorded from 24/192 hi-rez digital source to 15IPS speed on my Revox PR99 MK II RTR and Revox B215 Cassette deck. They sound fabulous with no hissing noise whatsoever.
A friend who visited me lately listened to the newly recorded music on my Revox B215 cassette deck he couldn't believe a cassette tape could sound like this.
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