If it's the UK/Austrailian or European model then it uses a different transformer then the US and Canada models. If it's the Asia model then it has a voltage selector switch. Will let you know what its got when it gets here The deck is in mint condition which is why I bought it from the UK instead of US ebay. I hope either it can be converted or it is ready to convert from the factory. Not yet sure Curt it will be here anytime today, should be within 2 hours or so. can you fit a small 110 to 220 volt transformer within the deck? hopefully there's not too many secondaries coming out of it. If there are only two wires out of the primary of the power transformer, you'll need to find a 110 volt power transformer.
Sometimes there's a tied off wire on the power transformer primary with the 110 volt tap. When I'm asking for a Model number, that doesn't mean I'm asking for a nude photo with your number on it I really dont want to buy a voltage adapter, and if I do modify the deck I would prefer to keep it looking as unmodified as possible on the outside It comes sometime today so I wanted to get an idea of what this entails. if the internals of the deck do not have a switch for the voltage, how hard is it going to be to convert it to US 110v? (Mine have never left it's closed in cabinet.) Once in a while I'd plug it in and run the tape back and forth, through all the modes.Bought this deck from a place in the UK, its got the 240v power cord and obviously runs on 240v. I'd be surprised if you could get $225 for this, even if it's in mint condition. I just saw a listing for a V-770 that was asking CAD $225.00 last December and sold. I forget what I paid for the V-770 Cassette Deck. A Buddy and I spent $900 in November '89 and got two CDP-C700s - which was a great deal at the time. The CD player was a Sony 5 Disc Carousel Model CDP-C700 (which is also in the same cabinet, and will also be retired). I had a Sony Cassette Recorder before it, which was not it this class of machine, but I mae hundreds of Tape copied of my Albums on it. I hardly used the V-770 as I stopped using it shortly after I bought my first home CD Player. I bought it to make tapes for the custom stereo system I put in my 280Z before my first CD Head unit. It's in a big Oak Cabinet that will be retired soon when the Misses starts renovating. (I loved Maxell and TDK Tapes.) It was an affordable 3 Head machine with Dual Drive motors and very decent specs.
I still have a TEAC V-770 Cassette Deck that's been sitting unused for ages => with a Maxell C-90 tape in it. The BBC research and engineering budget has never been anywhere near as plush since. At that time the BBC had a significant lead, at huge expense, which incurred the considerable ire of Margaret Thatcher. In fact I was among the first in the US to broadcast live concerts from digital recordings. Those were the days! I started making my first live digital recordings in 1984, which was cutting edge back then. Even buying tapes in bulk pancakes, and putting together the 10 1/2 inch reels from parts running costs were over $20 per hour. Tape prices were also very high for open real. In the world of tape life was neither easy or cheap. For cassette I would recalibrate, but stick to BASF tapes as far as possible. With the open real machines I calibrated for Ampex Grand Master and kept to it. The NAKS were $2000 and up.Īdd to that all brands of tapes required individual calibration, even if they were of the same tape type.
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Alignment was a huge problem, so the high end machines came either with auto calibration, or built in test tone oscillators and a means to set record bias and Eq with a front panel screw driver presets. My three head, three motor TEAC cost me $1200 in the early eighties. So to even approach Hi-Fi quality was very expensive.
The cassette recorder was a huge problem due to very narrow tape width and very slow speed.
I see the Brenell prices were not published and all were price on application!
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The pro MK6 Brenell I put together from bespoke parts for around $1000. My semi pro Revox A 700 cost me around $1500 in the early seventies. In addition to that, if you did not own extensive test gear, and expensive laboratory alignment tapes then you had to take the machine to the dealer at least once a year for calibration. All of those A77 were purchased as wrecks, or with a serious problem. These were domestic but used extensively by pros. In the early seventies my three Revox machines would have been in the $700 to $800 range. To be pro a deck had to be built with precision engineering, have three motors and three heads. However you have to understand in the days of analog spending more on equipment brought a huge increase in sound quality. Click to expand.Well of course cheap single motor two head decks could be had for $100 to $200 range and up to around $500.
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