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Monday, August 2, 2010

Embarrassment of riches

One day you have no tape decks, the next you have two.  Pictured are a 3-head Sony TC-KA1ES, and a dual cassette, 2-head Sony TC-WA8ESA.  The WA8 is brand new, right out of the box- thank you, Mr. Sweda at Chips Unlimited of Patchogue, NY. The 3-head deck was a low-use eBay purchase.  I discovered an auction for an identical deck  of which a portion of the purchase price went to the Blind Cat Rescue and Sanctuary: http://www.blindcatrescue.com/ (please visit and give if you can).  I missed that one, but bought this one and gave to the rescue anyway.  These machines while nice, and including many features, are built in no way close to the standards of the ES machines of yore.  They are light-weight mass-market fare.  A TC-K730 or 890ES would be better, but they still command high sums, need maintenance that is costly and after I finish this project would sit idly collecting dust.  For the limited use these will get, I expect them to do the job.  A more involved review of their performance to come when I start dubbing David's band: "Stepson" on to CD.

2 comments:

  1. Cool-

    How do you think the KA1ES compared to the WA8ESA?

    Mark

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  2. Build-wise they are remarkably similar. I can't comment on the sound or operation as yet because the entire room has been taken over by a seven-week old kitten we adopted. Crazy, but it's the only room in the house where we can contain her and keep her out of trouble. Once she can roam free I'll get back into the swing of things and blog about the tape deck situation.

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