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Tape Project Machines / Re: Studer A810
« on: August 23, 2012, 08:40:18 PM »
Doc thks for responding

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Tape Project Machines / Re: Studer A810
« on: August 21, 2012, 10:51:34 AM »
This forum is really quiet.
Xcortes, thanks for the feedback

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Tape Project Machines / Studer A810
« on: August 17, 2012, 08:30:25 AM »
A few weeks ago my Studer pinch roller melted- wonder how that can happen. Anyway it happens. I sent it to a technician to get it repair & decided to align the tape using the alignment tape from Tape Project. Would it make any difference is I get it align using the internal electronic or the external preamp of Bottlehead ? Thanks

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JCmusic I m with you in this. It's taking way too long. 18mths to receive 1st tape

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Robert , I got my studer a810 modded by Doc to accept external electronic ie Tube repro which is so much more superior to stock electronic. Enjoy your music . Welcome to the reel to reel audio nirvana

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Tape Project Machines / Re: Studer A810 head rewire
« on: December 24, 2010, 12:49:16 AM »
Xcortes. Somehow I missed your question. There is only 9 AAA tapes not 10. My mistake

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Tape Project Machines / Re: T/P machine or not
« on: December 24, 2010, 12:35:58 AM »
It's nothing but a pleasure to deal with Doc. Modified Studer A810 profesionally. Had a hum issue and Doc patiently trouble shot it thru Internet and got it solved

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Tape Project Machines / Re: Studer A810 head rewire
« on: September 03, 2010, 11:22:37 AM »
Xavier , not too scarce , just got to be patience. For 6922 tube, I have tfk e88cc, e188c and amperex 7308 PQ Holland, any idea which is better. A little lazy now. Just got myself a raven 10.5 (on raven ac3) as my 2nd tonearm with zyx omega gold, love it

Steve, on studer A810 stock electronic I don't find tape that exciting but with tube repro, it's out of the world and To my ears way better than my LP set up particular TP016, Rock with me baby , such quiet background and when Hatch sings it's as though he is In my room. To me , reel to reel is the source if you want the best music reproduction. If I m from USA, I will probably hunt for A820 but in Malaysia without tech support it's tough. Reel to reel is definitely a much cheaper entry to enjoy quality music production compared to most high end analog set up. With cables, phonostage, tonearms , cartridges , turntable which cost a couple of times the cost of studer/tube repro set up, I still prefer studer/repro and that sum up how I feels about studer/repro. Only set back is that we abt 26 tapes, 16 tapeproject tapes and 10 aaanalog tapes, listening to limited tapes can be boring. Wish I have at least 100 15 ips tapes 

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Tape Project Machines / Re: Studer A810 head rewire
« on: September 01, 2010, 10:17:27 AM »
Correction- I have always thought that my hum issue was due to bad tfk ef 806s. Purchase 4 pairs and still experienced hum problem. After some trouble shooting with Doc, and connecting ground wire fr Studer to Repro, my hum virtually vanished. Credit to Doc for his excellence customer service for taking the trouble to guide me thru my problem- even sent me drawing to make sure I understand his instruction.

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Tape Project Machines / Re: Studer A810 head rewire
« on: July 27, 2010, 09:22:09 AM »
I m using tube repro. I got both tfk e188c and e88cc. Lets see how it goes. I m curious whether we can use tfk 804s in place of tfk ef 86 or 806s? saw a posting in whatsbestforum and was told its good

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Tape Project Machines / Re: Studer A810 head rewire
« on: July 26, 2010, 11:43:12 AM »
I did try cleaning it with Progold but it didnt help much. I suppose I need something more abrasive. Well, at least I knw that the tube rush sound that I have been hearing is due to TFK ef 806s that I have been using. I suppose it better to buy from more reliable seller but it wouldnt be cheap.
Will be comparing my amperex 7308 PQ with telefunken e88cc and e188cc and lets see how it goes

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Tape Project Machines / Re: Studer A810 head rewire
« on: July 24, 2010, 10:39:02 AM »
Feedback

The hum that I posted in the previous thread is due to noisy telefunken ef 806s. When I replaced it with a newly purchase pair of ef 806s , it was very quiet and without hum/. Unfortunately 1 of the tube is defective. What a frustrating experience. Looks like I will replace it with GEC CV 4085 and see how it perform

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Suggestion Box / Series 3
« on: May 29, 2010, 10:49:26 AM »
Suggesting the following :
1. Boiling Toshiba Pro use
2. Tea for the tillerman Cat steven Pink I , ILPS 9135
3. Massenet Le cid , Louis fremaux, HMV Greensleeve ESD 7040
4. Dire straits On every street, WB 1-26680

I think we should have a couple of pop/rock album. So far we have classical , Jazz, Blues but no rock tape

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Tape Project Machines / Re: Studer A810 head rewire
« on: May 15, 2010, 02:08:55 AM »
Finally I got my Tube Repro and my cable is too short (0.6m) for my Repro which is sharing the same shelf as my Studer. Temporarily holding it up with a storage box. Not ideal at all until I find a better solution
Have my Studer A810 for abt a 1 1/2mths, while it doesnt have the annoying ticking sounds due to dirty vinyl and sounding pretty natural, I find it lacking in bass and not so dynamics. It certainly doesnt float my boat with the stock electronic. With the Tube Repro hooked up, its so much more dynamics and exciting. It has been burnt in for abt 150 hrs by Paul, with another 50 hrs , I believe it should be better. Only grouse I have so far is the presence of a very audible hum when its on standby and in between song. Not very acceptable hum. Both stock and NOS telefunken ef 806s I used is noisy. To be fair I have only 2-3 hrs on it. According to Dan, hopefully after 50 hrs the telefunken ef 806s will quieten down. Anybody with Tube Repro has such experience ?
Other than the noise, it sounded superb. Despite such brief listening I dare said its probably better than my Raven AC3, schroeder fw tonearm, Ensemble phonostage and Ortofon A90 catridge costing more than 3-4x reel to reel set up

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Tape Project Machines / Re: Studer A810 head rewire
« on: March 11, 2010, 12:51:05 AM »
Raven AC 3 with schroeder 2fw and ortofon A90. Waiting for raven 10.5 tonearm

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