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    Spring Scales Set

    Hi everyone, I've been looking everywhere for a spring scale set in order to properly adjust breaks and tape tension on my reel to reels as manuals indicate. I found ARBOR SCIENTIFIC which sales a set of spring scales for only USD $35.00. Freight to me was more expensive than the scales (USD...
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    Realignment of STUDER A810 after battery replacement

    Hi everyone Hi people, After reading a series of postings on STUDER yahoo group I checked the battery on my MP board. Battery was down to 0.6V and ready to "pop" (very green around). Also I was getting EEE01 error message. I replaced it with one from e-bay. Does anyone have a clear...
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    REVOX A-700 Rebuild by ISR-EV Germany

    Hi REEL to REEL lovers, I mentioned a few times about my story on a REVOX A-700 rebuild by ISR-EV. I met Peter Anaker and ISR-EV on my visit in Germany last summer (that includes Andy the baker, which can "cook" some nice REVOXEs not only bread) You can check their web site...
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    Sanken s-60w

    Hi everyone, I am from Sydney Australia and I am looking for 4 x S-60W SANKEN IC's. Anyone knows where I can source them? Thank you for your help. Regards, Eugen
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    Looking for SANKEN S-60W IC

    Hi people, I am located in Sydney Australia and I am looking for 4 x SANKEN S-60W IC's. I am willing to repair an AKAI AS1080 quad amplifier. Got it from e-bay and has one IC missing and the others not working properly. Anyone has any ideea where can I locate those? I contacted SANKEN...
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    More Studers to my collection

    Hi everyone, I been to an ABC surplus auction in Sydney last Friday. I always wanted to have a STUDER A810 or A80 but could not find anything on a resonable price. This time at this auction were 4 x STUDER 810. I tought I can try for one if price does not go out of control. On reel-to reel area...
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    Looking for new "budget" speakers - ELAC FS247,248,249????

    Hi people, I am looking for some nice speakers with a budget of 3999-7999 AUD. I been looking at ELAC FS 247, FS248 or FS249. The ELAC FS 249 sound very close to what I want. Wonder if anyone has any experience with ELAC's. What would you choose without going to a very high price. You can...
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    Reel to Reel choice for every day recording.

    Hey people, I joined THE TAPE PROJECT forum and read a lot about this TAPE PROJECT. Hmmm seems to be an very interesting concept, so perfect you can nearly smell BACH's sweat but I had something else in mind. I already own over 2000 tapes and I wanted a reel to reel to produce best quality...
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    SONY Double Dolby Surround

    Hi everyone, Double doubly surround always fascinated me. I really wanted to do it on a low budget so I purchased 2 x SONY surround sound processors. One 7.1 SONY STR-DB798 and one 6.2 SONY STR-K1600. Problem was not getting the stuff, was convincing the wife to put 16 speakers in my...
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    Another one from Down Under

    Hi Everyone, My name is Eugen and I am from Sydney Australia. To be more precise Sydney has over 1000 suburbs, I live in Sydney west towards Blue Mountains. Since young age had a vivid interest for reel-to-reels. Born in Romania, more precisely Transilvania (so stay away from me at night...

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