Just making a guess, $1,200 - 1,500 but that was 1980 dollar. Don't have the stereo buying guide in front of me ...
The lowest speed on the following deck A700, which is in my collection, is 1 7/8 ips, the same speed as the typical cassette decks and is considered one of the best open-reel decks ever built by Revox ...
I disagree. I recently got a Nakamichi 582 in great original condition and I must say it's a very good sounding deck. It's a very versatile cassette deck and it's very easy to make great recordings with this deck- it's a keeper.
How can you question the wisdom of this report, Pyle and ion, top notch professional decks. If you search way down the list, you can find Studer/ReVox and Nakamichi towards to bottom of the list, for those that want to just have something to play background music, can't wait until they review amplifiers, this Pyle is AAA at 2 watts.
Most ReVox A 700 machines are 3 3/4 IPS, 7 1/2 IPS, and 15 IPS. Usually 1/2 track or 1/4 track. Super Slow Speed machines were very special order, and usually A 77 based. Generally those models were logging or audio survelliance recorders.
I am blissfully ignorant of any such stupidity. Did you just make this up, or is this real like that idiotic Tide-Pod eating meme? Should this be real, then it sounds like there are some Darwin awards to be handed out.
I'm young enough to have never been a serious cassette user, and recently purchased my first ever cassette deck, a very used Nakamichi BX-300. I just finished refurbishing/upgrading it with guidance from the folks over at tapeheads.org. I must say, having heard nothing but "cassette is garbage" basically since home digital recording became the thing (that's where I came in), this thing makes pretty much indistinguishable copies of anything I've thrown at it. I'm only using used/erased type II tapes while I learn how to really use it, so nothing fancy. I also always heard Dolby C was garbage, and I'm finding that it sounds surprisingly transparent for the most part, and pushes hiss down to mostly inaudible levels. For the relatively minor investment of a "it kinda works, sometimes, only in reverse on its side?" unit, a very minor investment in materials, and some fun with a soldering iron, I'm impressed!
