I like Teac over many years. I do have the more expensive Japanese version of the fairly current Teac Dual tape deck W1200 and it works nicely, though Dolby is gone from the market due to patents expiring.
I usually associate Teac with high quality as well. This particular deck in the video had some problems which I hope were not typical, maybe resulting from a power surge or run of bad capacitors.... The W1200 looks like the Tascam 202MKVII being offered on Amazon currently for $600, which has a switch labeled "Noise Reduction (Play Only)" wonder if it would make a Dolby B tape sound better.... Anyway, thanks for watching and I appreciate the comment!
@@ACBMemphis Do you think any mid-80s audiophiles accept ANY audible gap in their recordings? I don't think so. So still wandering what was an idea behind this TEAC's approach.
3:58 Most high-end Nakamichi decks have these, along with separate volume/output knob.
Wow! You have the user manual! I beg you please share it in any way with us - poor TEAC R-555/R-666X owners! :)
I like Teac over many years. I do have the
more expensive Japanese version of the
fairly current Teac Dual tape deck W1200
and it works nicely, though Dolby is gone
from the market due to patents expiring.
I usually associate Teac with high quality as well. This particular deck in the video had some problems which I hope were not typical, maybe resulting from a power surge or run of bad capacitors.... The W1200 looks like the Tascam 202MKVII being offered on Amazon currently for $600, which has a switch labeled "Noise Reduction (Play Only)" wonder if it would make a Dolby B tape sound better.... Anyway, thanks for watching and I appreciate the comment!
Is there still any chance to scan and upload an user manual for the 555/666X tape decks? Thanks
Just wondering how you calculated the music gap?
This was done by overlaying video of a timer - both the original video and timer video were 30fps so it should be very accurate.
@@ACBMemphis Do you think any mid-80s audiophiles accept ANY audible gap in their recordings? I don't think so. So still wandering what was an idea behind this TEAC's approach.
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