From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!rabbit!jj Newsgroups: net.audio Title: Re: Looking for a tape deck Article-I.D.: rabbit.687 Posted: Wed Aug 11 10:24:51 1982 Received: Fri Aug 13 05:47:38 1982 References: stolaf.516 In the last year, we have bought and tried several tape decks, among them the TEAC-V7, eumig-FL-1000up, several unmemorable Panasonics, and a few not worthy of mention (portables, of the voice grade class). As far as I am concerned, the Teac-V7 is the best of the bunch. It costs about 300 at discount, has metal/Ch/feO compatibility, three heads, and the usual flock of feechurs.(Oh yes, has Dolby too.) The performance, as published, on standard tape, is as good as my Ampex AG440 (except, of course, you can't edit a cassette very well, you need a THIN razor blade.) On Chrome, it has the usual improvements. On metal tape, it (as one would expect) works very well. We measured 23Hz-19.3kHz response at -10dB, with a distortion of about .5% up to 3K, and about 2% at 18K. (This is exceptional, the Ampex, which is set up right, doesn't do much better in the distortion department.) Well, to make a long story short, the ones I had examined here were good enough that I bought one for myself, including the remote control. The performance at home is very nice. Its performance, by listening, is very good, with little of the usual scrape/flutter and distortion that I usually associate with cassettes. While I am sure that there are other good machines on the market, I like this one because of its high performance/price ratio. I would also appreciate hearing about other good cassette decks. I don't really care about lousy ones, unless you feel that the world should be warned.