New tape recorder Tandberg

[defender]

Originally Posted by ricard

They rectified this after serial number 2209550 by a slight circuit redesign, after which the switches cause very little problems.

serial number from the bottom of the inputs area
2214051

[julie_m]

Play / Record switches in tape recorders can be as bad as, or even worse than, wavechange switches in radios, measuring by the sheer amount of grief they can cause. (I've never known a dodgy wavechange switch make me forget everything I ever heard on the radio .....)

That said, I've probably just been spoiled with three-head machines! There's nothing wrong in principle with a two-head recorder, if all the switch contacts are working properly; you can save a valve (two even, if you can forego listening through the internal speaker to the source material as you record), and there is something to be said for using the exact same head that recorded something to reproduce that recording .....

[ricard]

Originally Posted by defender

serial number from the bottom of the inputs area 2214051

That sounds good, it's above 2209550, so hopefully very little will actually need to be done to the switches. Perhaps they just haven't been used for a while, so that just operating them several times may restore them.