Well it’s taken a while, but vic has certainly worked his magic on this.
Many parts changed.
Complete strip down even the switches.
Obviously all cleaned, re greased, etc.
Just needs the front plate re printed. It’s not bad, but it’s not perfect, and i want it right, so it’s been sent over sea’s to get sorted.
Then it will just be reline it all up to my new nabs, and re calibration.
It should then be good to go for hopefully many year’s to come.
Well, i will be getting it back this weekend.
It’s all set up and working lovely, apparently.
Decided to set up the recording side to the SM911 tape, but i can change it to the SM900 if i wish. But I will probably end up trying both in time.
As for the front panel, i have decided to hold fire on that for now. It will allow me to use the machine, and rather than run the risk sending it over sea’s, i am going to look for someone more local.
Also, my Yello master tape should be here Friday. This will be the first thing i play on it.
Going to wait till tomorrow, as Vic is popping round, and it’s only fair we both listen together with this for the first time.
It should be spectacular.
Enjoy! If nothing else, it looks very cool! I’m sure it will sound fantastic too.
By the way, I am sure you already have found somewhere to buy tapes, but I noticed mcru sells a decent selection when buying my latest power cable from them last week. Hope that is useful to you.
Well, the Yello tape is completely absolutely stunning.
I played the same album but streamed as i don’t have it.
The difference is un real.
Yes they are differently master version, so it’s not like comparing the same.
But as said it’s hugely better
I was listening with some friends to a copy master at 7.5IPS the other week and despite the EQ being wrong on my G36 (IEC Vs NAB so was a bit toppy) anything we listened to subsequently, LP or digital just didn’t cut it.
Wow. Some major work carried out on that machine, Dunc, I’m sure it has been worth the wait and well done to your friend.
Have many hours of enjoyment.
It certainly was.
As said it mostly worked, but as with all these, once you dig deeper it’s not hard to find problems.
But it’s working wonderfully now, and has a lovely big frequency range now.
The work done on this would have cost around £1000.
But even if i had to pay that, it would still be a very cheap machine for what i paid for it.
So luckily for me it’s all been a bargin.
