New Reel to reel from Analogue audio France TR1000

I have been following their facebook page with interest. It seems like a well thought out, solid product to me. One hast to try and listen to one though to get a real idea...

I am very happy there are new tape machines coming up. Ballfinger, Metaxas&Sins, this one...
 
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But the Thorens has the same technical base from the Ballfinger. And the same price of 12 k€. I expect it has a similar performance. Maybe the sounding and the look is different. Ballfinger is cooler with aluminium and Thorens has more classical finish.
 
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Christophe Martinez of Analog Audio Design told me that he will be producing a model which can play 30 IPS tapes.
 
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Looks cool. My biggest gripe is rewind. Once I play a tape I know the rewind stop.
I want to be able to enter the number, hit rewind and have it stop, start at the correct spot. I also want a library rewind.
 
Cool project. Sounds like he made it in his garage. 10k EUR seems very reasonable given the cost of cables and cartridges.
 

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