I've had 3 of them over the years. Joint first place with the Tascam 234 for the title of best cassette multi-track ever. They sound AMAZING. Won't be cheap anymore tho. I sold my last one for £750 4 years ago. Most cassette faults are the idler tyre gone dry.
Yes, they are amazing! I had a Tascam 122 MKII and I loved it until it broke. I tried to fix but it was never the same so I had to let it go. £750 is a great deal, I sold mine broken for $370 dlls on eBay auctions around 5 years ago, not bad considering the problem it had. Today I have the Tascam 424 MKII and I absolutely love it.
That goldmine seems to have already become established. The lowest price for a broken product on eBay Germany is around €360. For a (hopefully) working one you will be charged around 1360 Euros. The only copy I see on Reverb is advertised at incomprehensive € 850,-. Do you know a cheaper alternative, eventually from AKAI or someone else?
$1360 Euros is something I didn't expect hearing for this Mixer. I actually put in the video a couple of units that are actually on eBay at around $450 dlls, but the way I found mine was through Facebook Marketplace from a person who needed to clean his storage unit and had some of his brother's equipment sitting there so he just wanted to get rid of it.
The Yamaha's mt8x preamps are pretty decent too. Both mki and mkii versions. They sound better and have a more musical eq than the equivalent portastudios.
no they are not, not at all. But it is real funny how people take for granted dump gearslutz threads. it's a very cheap opamp based design, no transformer no inductor eq no nothing.
An A/B comparison would be nice 👍
I will make a second video to do the A/B test.
I've had 3 of them over the years. Joint first place with the Tascam 234 for the title of best cassette multi-track ever. They sound AMAZING. Won't be cheap anymore tho. I sold my last one for £750 4 years ago. Most cassette faults are the idler tyre gone dry.
Yes, they are amazing! I had a Tascam 122 MKII and I loved it until it broke. I tried to fix but it was never the same so I had to let it go. £750 is a great deal, I sold mine broken for $370 dlls on eBay auctions around 5 years ago, not bad considering the problem it had. Today I have the Tascam 424 MKII and I absolutely love it.
That goldmine seems to have already become established. The lowest price for a broken product on eBay Germany is around €360. For a (hopefully) working one you will be charged around 1360 Euros.
The only copy I see on Reverb is advertised at incomprehensive € 850,-. Do you know a cheaper alternative, eventually from AKAI or someone else?
$1360 Euros is something I didn't expect hearing for this Mixer. I actually put in the video a couple of units that are actually on eBay at around $450 dlls, but the way I found mine was through Facebook Marketplace from a person who needed to clean his storage unit and had some of his brother's equipment sitting there so he just wanted to get rid of it.
@@NostalgicExplorerAnyway ,still a nice video. Always love to become acquainted with vintage quality.gear.
@@Gerald_Daniel Thanks for the support Gerald, it means a lot!
@@NostalgicExplorer Always a pleasure!
The Yamaha's mt8x preamps are pretty decent too. Both mki and mkii versions. They sound better and have a more musical eq than the equivalent portastudios.
no they are not, not at all. But it is real funny how people take for granted dump gearslutz threads. it's a very cheap opamp based design, no transformer no inductor eq no nothing.