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.
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Have you thought of a DAT deck? I have one in my system and I use it for digital(CD) and the analog inputs for vinyl. I saw a used one on audioshopper for 200.00. You can purchase 2 hour DAT tapes for around 4.00 or cheaper. The tapes are small and easy to store. Good luck.
No you don't need an external dac for a DAT player. They are like one box cd players with a dac section built in. DAT players have a digital out to use a dac if desired.