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Old 8th May 2019, 7:04 am   #26
barrymagrec
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Default Re: Reel to reel revival

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I think it is very possible to make a working tape recorder (other than the heads) in a model engineer's workshop. Whether you can get it up to, say, Revox standards is another matter.
Exactly. There is something like half a century's-worth of expertise in the finer points of analogue tape recorder design, which is in danger of being lost.
I think it mostly is already lost - hence the "high end" Ballfinger with a moving headblock.
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