I have 2 technics rs1500 (good machine for mods), 2 revox a77, one teac a3340s, one pioneer rt 1011L and a few smaller 7 inches reel player,and collecting more?,for what i own, i love the revox a77 alot, they are easy to fix, schematic is available on the internet and once it's completely restored, it's a one heck of a machine in term of reliability and sound quality,love the technics for its capable of playing 15ips speed and rigid transport.It's good to see more and more people starting to get into R2R machine,IMHO these machine if perfectly calibrated with good and clean tape heads, they will smoke all the CD recorder out there and aslo expensive 3 head cassette deck ( cassette dont have the dynamic range that R2R offers)a down side is that it's hard to get prerecorded tapes, also blank tapes,and it's expensive.My 2cents.
Tim
Tim