This is my first post and I'm not sure where I should post this. I purchased my TEAC A-2300 SD new in early 1979. It saw considerable service for about 5 years in a variety of venues, from home demo recordings of mine to live theater recordings and some live audio performances. I acquired a great many reels of late 70's early 80's tape and unfortunately many of those tapes are no longer playable. However most of the important ones somehow survived. In any event the TEAC was in dead storage for a decade and a half as I concentrated on putting together my home studio which is PC based. However in spite of having some good very modern equipment the old TEAC was always in the back of my mind and one day I promised I'd put it back into service. Well that day came. The lion's share of making the TEAC servicable was simply cleaning it throughly both inside and out and servicing all of the switches and pots. One nagging problem however was getting the pinch roller to engage as it had become very lazy. A through cleaning and lubrication put it right. After getting it sorted out I also dug out my Technics SU-7300 amplifer purchased within a month of the TEAC. For a listening medium I located the pristine reel to reel copy of Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde that I made on the then brand new TEAC from a brand new only been played once (for that recording) LP original pressing. The listening was sublime simply out of this world. After being in a virtually 100% digital audio domain for over a decade coming back to first rate quality analog tape was a revelation. Now if I can only find some tape......
