What's the sense in using a *cheap* deck for those precious archives? Get yourself something of real quality, it won't cost that much more anyway these days when good used decks are going for such good prices. One machine that I have meeting all your requirements above is the Luxman K-03 manual calibration cassette deck. Original list was $1200 & worth it, but I don't know what they sell for now (sorry I'm keeping mine ... along with both of my reel machines). I have seen the K-03 for sale here, albeit rarely.
help me with cheap tape deck.
Want to spend arround $200 on used tape deck with the following:
3 heads, minimum 2 motors(3 is better), record monitoring, non-digital VUs, all manual adjustmens(bias, separate level controls on each channels), good recording preamp, built quality, none-china(also non-indonesia, non-Korea) made.
for transfering extra-valuable vinyls to tapes.
3 heads, minimum 2 motors(3 is better), record monitoring, non-digital VUs, all manual adjustmens(bias, separate level controls on each channels), good recording preamp, built quality, none-china(also non-indonesia, non-Korea) made.
for transfering extra-valuable vinyls to tapes.