http://www.analoguerules.com/bestmachine.html

[Howard Jones]

Everyone has a personal favorite machine
if they've worked with more than just one or two machines.

So here's a little 'test'

see if you pick the 'best sounding' tape recorder your first try!



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Choose the machine you think is the BEST SOUNDING TAPE RECORDER

SEARCH THE ENTIRE LISTING!! Think carefully !!



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the STUDER A-827



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the AMPEX MM 1200



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the OTARI MTR 100



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the 3M M79



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the AMPEX ATR 124



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the SCULLY 100



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the AMPEX MM 1100



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the STUDER A-80



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the MCI JH-24



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the OTARI MX-80


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the 3M M56



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the OTARI MTR 90 mkIII



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the AMPEX MM 1000



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the MCI JH-16



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Pick the machine you think SOUNDS THE BEST !
then see if you got it right!

[Chris H]

Bugger!!..... I feel like such a failure....picked the wrong machine of course... still i'm happy with what i'm doing with my old MM 1100 on the odd occasion i get to use it these days

[chris p]

Darn

You left the Yamaha MT4X cassette 4-track off the list. I made me first album on one of those.

...... and Beck still uses one to make records.

Lets all do the chant: It ain't the gear .....

[Howard Jones]

Make sure you click on the link to make sense of this thread...

http://www.analoguerules.com/bestmachine.html

[otto ruiter]

What a load of toss!

If you can't hear the difference between a Studer A80 and an Ampex ATR then you're in the wrong business.

[mark rachelle]

i went for the A80 too

hmm should of stuck with my Ta@#$% porta 2

having said that my doro answering maching gets a pretty decent response at 1k

[Howard Jones]

Yeah, but it must be hard figuring where the 2" tape goes in...