Re: [ARSCLIST] 1/4" tape player

["Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Scott,

You're just prejudiced 'cause you helped design/QA these wonderful 
machines <Big Grin>.

The challenge with this question--and why I didn't answer it the 
first time around--is that we know nothing about the application nor 
the support infrastructure in Darren's location.

The other answers to this question include, Studer A807 and Studer 
A810 as well as even some Otari models that I wouldn't suggest...in 
fact, I'm hard pressed to even suggest the Studer A807 over the A810 
or the APR-5002, but many archives are doing good work with them, and 
their fine for exploring and tirage, with critical transfers done on 
better machines.

But, is Darren wanting to play 1/4-track tapes? If so, few, if any 
off-the-shelf APRs, A807s, or A810s are properly equipped to play 
these, as you know. Are 1.88 in/s tapes involved? Full track mono tapes?

So, perhaps the real answer to Darren's question is, please tell us 
more about your collection and your goals...and also remind him that 
getting a machine off eBay and then attempting to play tapes without 
a thorough going-over is a greater risk than I'd want to take.

Then there is the choice of A-D converter (and as you may have 
noticed, Scott, for the field recording application, I've suffered 
much angst when I found a particular piece of gear (MOTU 8Pre) was 
below the standard of the rest of my gear, but subtly so, that it 
wasn't noticeable at first)

And, of course, we could mention that there are many of us here who 
can undertake the transfers in our specialty built transfer 
facilities and provide digital files.

Merry Christmas to all!

Cheers,

Richard

At 10:37 AM 2007-12-24, Scott Phillips wrote:

> Sony APR-5002 or 5003
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Can someone recommend a 1/4" tape player that comes on its own trolley
> (I know what I want when I see it, but cannot recall the name). The
> player sits at an angle to the operator.    Ideally XLR/balanced
> output but all considered. Googling for keywords and checking eBay etc
> doesn't give many clues to this clueless searcher!
>
> Many thanks, Darren

Richard L. Hess                   email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.