The UHA sounds better in every way. That said...the Stella holds it's own....better sounding than a stock Studer A810. I bought a bunch of 600', 5" reel tape to use it w/o the 10.5" reel adaptor contraption. The measured wow and flutter for the 10.5" reel adapter setup was .04%. Not bad for a portable machine that can run on rechargeable AA's. Max recording time at 15 ips is 8 minutes for the 5", 600' tape reels. I can make up some nice sampler demo mix tapes for on the go tape listening pleasure. This is not a tape deck for everyday use (workhorse). It is very cool and sounds much better than the Nagra 4S stock and this one has modded repro electronics (cello circuit treatment).
