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- From: ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Pioneer "Auto BLE" opinions?
- Message-ID: <10626@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 16:15:02 GMT
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- Jonas Palm (Jonas.Palm@orgk3.lu.se) wrote:
- : In article <10583@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>, ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck)
- : wrote:
- : > Does anyone have experience with the Pioneer "Auto BLE" type decks?
- :
- : It is _definitely_ worth having, especially if you haven't done calibration
- : work before. I would never buy a cassette deck which didn't allow the
- : user to calibrate it to different tape types easily.
- :
- Thanks for the information. Of the two decks I looked at one was "Auto BLE"
- while the other was "Super Auto BLE". I was under the impression that the
- "Super" variety was due to the deck having 3 heads so it could do the
- adjustment in a single pass, but maybe I'm wrong there.
- :
- : Personally, I am wary of auto-reversing decks. (Nakamichi has shown that
- : it can be done right, for ludicrous amounts of money.)
- : Auto-reversing decks are _usually_ plagued by relatively unstable
- : tape transports and azimuth errors in either or both directions.
- : If you do not absolutely need this feature, I would recommend that you
- : spend your money elsewhere.
-
- I share your distrust of auto-reverse, but it seems hard to find a deck in
- that price range without it. I'm willing to listen to possible alternatives.
- I'm still shopping and considering how long my last deck lasted I am willing
- to take my time finding a new one.
- Now if I can only find a shop that deals in Nakamichi . . .
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