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Re: Yamaha's play trim

Posted by rotovator (A) on December 1, 2006 at 00:49:54

In Reply to: Yamaha's play trim posted by on_the_edge on November 30, 2006 at 19:54:21:

No

Azimuth adjustement has nothing to do with play trim.

Play trim changes only the speed. it is very unusual to find a (bad) deck that records tapes that need to be slowed or accelerated in other decks to listen properly.

Azimuth is another story. It is quite common to have decks slightly misaligned. But most of the times it is not a problem. If you plan to listen to old tapes recorded on a single unit that was not properly aligned. You may need a manual adjustement. But Beware!! you can misalign an aligned deck. you would need some sort of measurement instrument (I use my pc) to align it again.

There are almost no decks with automatic or manual assisted azimuth adjustement, apart from some naks. Most of the times you do it with a screwdriver carefully on a screw on the head block.

Here in europe. Yamaha KX580 is a bit harder to get. It is easier to find a Yamaha 690.

I would also consider Pioneer CT-S900. They are very popular and can be found cheap (Mine 48 Eur). Or one of the many SONY. They produced a lot of decks with dolby S, bad and good ones. Try TC-K800 series and above.

I've got the pioneer, a SONY TC-KA6ES, a TEAC V-8030S and the pioneer wins in cost/performance.

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