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Old 24th Oct 2017, 11:45 pm   #14
TIMTAPE
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Default Re: REVOX A700 Transport Control and Capstanboard: Underdesigned transistors?

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Originally Posted by Ted Kendall View Post
... To get adequate noise performance, it was best to use the -3 version of the chip, which was selected for low noise, and in practice this was satisfactory, unless you were using lots of top lift to retrieve a tape seriously lacking in treble - it was still well below tape noise in normal use...
I would have thought that, so long as the repro amp doesnt add significant extra noise to the baseline of bias noise, the lack of treble in the recording and so the need for top lift would be irrelevent here. Or did you mean a case where there is unavoidable spacing loss?
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