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knobtwiddler · 16th Apr 2021, 3:15 pm

A quick truffle around on t'interweb revealed a conversion kit by 'radio systems inc' for the DTC-1000. It offered auxiliary transport controls (brightly coloured plastic buttons), as well as rack ears. One wonders how many other OEMs offered similar kits? Maybe A+D did, as you suggest. That might have explained the ones I saw in the UK.

I tend to think of HHB as re-badging Marantz CD recorders (in the same way that Marantz re-badged Philips players a few years earlier). I often drive past the firm, Harlesden way.

16th Apr 2021, 3:15 pm	#12
knobtwiddler Octode Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: London, UK. Posts: 1,051	Re: The Rise and Fall of Audio Tape at the BBC, by Ian Astbury A quick truffle around on t'interweb revealed a conversion kit by 'radio systems inc' for the DTC-1000. It offered auxiliary transport controls (brightly coloured plastic buttons), as well as rack ears. One wonders how many other OEMs offered similar kits? Maybe A+D did, as you suggest. That might have explained the ones I saw in the UK. I tend to think of HHB as re-badging Marantz CD recorders (in the same way that Marantz re-badged Philips players a few years earlier). I often drive past the firm, Harlesden way.