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Re: What Are You Listening To? (Part Deux)

Linda Ronstadt: Heart Like a Wheel
Capitol Records ST-11358 {LP, stereo, recorded June-September, 1974}

50 years on, still fresh. (Still in love with you.)

agingboomer

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Re: What Are You Listening To? (Part Deux)

Kenny Burrell: K.B. Blues
Blue Note 3052 {LP, mono, recorded 10 February 1957, released in Japan 1979, reissued 2023, 180g, gatefold}
Blue Note Tone Poet Series

agingboomer

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Maybe small tabs of 3M 10lb mounting tape at each end of the strip?

Still easy enough for you to remove them for cleaning, but should be resistant to swatting.

Also could put a fake dead cat in the tines as an example of what happened to the last cat person who tried it?

msg

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Re: Concord turntable

Thanks for the info on the R2R deck. I have now been able to find much info at all on the MKii.

skrol

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Re: Concord turntable

SeleniumFalcon wrote: »

It looks a bit Sony-ish to me. With the appearance of the function lever and the sloped "chrome" like front of the head assembly. Or, maybe another OEM builder trying for the Sony look. Here's a link to an excellent website:

https://reel-reel.com/tape-recorder-brand/concord/

Many of the Japanese single-motor decks looked like that, probably all aping Sony!

I was actually thinking it looked more like perhaps a JVC or, yes, even Kenwood deck of that era. That said, the tape tensioners are a nice touch, more often found on (much) fancier decks from, e.g., Sony (yes) and TEAC in those days.

The innards photo in the Audio test report might be a dead giveaway, but my experience with Japanese decks of the late 60s/early 70s is pretty limited to Sony, AKAI (still sold as "Roberts", in the US, at that point), and TEAC (sometimes still in the guise of Concertone in the US in those days, but more and more appearing under their "real" brand name).

Thanks for that link, @SeleniumFalcon!