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| Reel to reel Hi Orpheus10,In all fairness, I really wasn’t planning on getting one, but even after being a tapehead (tapeheads.net...another forum one should check out for r2r stuff) for half a century, I wasn’t aware of the half track mode... always wondered ... | |
| Reel to reel Addendum: Here is a link to Reverb showing the original ad Professor audio posted. I believe you may have to be a registered member of reverb to view "sold" items so the link may not work. If that is the case, my apologies. FYI: I had purchas... | |
| Reel to reel After a lot of research, I just purchased a beautifully restored/refurbed Otari MX5050Bii2 from a gentleman known as Professor Audio on Reverb. His work is superb and the Otari now trumps my Technics RS1506 (needs a complete refurb including caps)... | |
| Reel to reel I had something similar happen to me recently... the right VU meters' signal was lower than the right. Then I remember reading somewhere if you play a 1/2 track tape on a 1/4 track machine (in this case, my TEAC X-1000R) the right channels' track... | |
| Reel to reel geoffkait14,555 posts03-31-2019 2:39pm"The distortion one hears on CDs (mostly) comes directly from the playback CD player. They never really ironed out all the kinks. Let me put it another way. The distortion is not (rpt not) on the CD or the o... | |
| Reel to reel One of the reasons I gave away most of my cd's was the engineer who mixed the cd used either compression and/or did not allow the original mix to shine through. Michael Fremer at Stereophile/Analog planet has done an exhaustive amount of research... | |
| Reel to reel Orpheus10. Will do on contacting Pioneer for parts for refurbishing my RS-1506. Thanks.gusser | |
| Reel to reel This has been a wonderful thread to read. I have always loved R2R's, now I have a better idea as to why. Thanks to all for both the technical and non-technical opinions and explanations.Orpheus10, I have purchased a completely refurbed Otari MX5... |