Hi all, I started a little reel-to-reel wiki on a free google site. The idea is to collect historical info, specs, maintenance info, known quirks, links, tips-and-tricks etc for these machines. There still isn't very much in the way of content, but if anyone want to contribute (even something as sim...

hey thanks for the input greg. Now that I have some 180pf panasonic film caps, i'm gonna have a go at it this weekend. I agree that those op amp upgrades seem a tad excessive. it seems like i basically have your olde setup (if i recall what you posted before correctly) tascam m520 + ms16? did you ev...

I think i found the proper part. Greg, or anyone else who performed this mod, do you remember if you had to adjust the bias tuning or bias trap pots (the ones way in the back of the rec/amp cards) afterwards? Or did replacing the capacitor just extend the available range of bias upwards (without req...

hmmm i was wondering that myself.
If so it would have to be a strange web server glitch as they had this page up recently iirc:
http://web.archive.org/web/200708060637 ... index.html
(most recent archive is august)

Someone over at tape op noticed this:
http://www.quantegy.com/
Anyone here know anything about this?

this fellow very kindly uploaded a great alignment procedure instruction manual for the MX5050:
http://dkse.net/pdf.html
i found it very useful.
incidentally, i love my mx-5050 bii.

after not buying a boat anchor MCI, i decided to pick up a lightly used 15ips ms-16. it was from the home studio of serge fiori: 70s french canadian prog rock legend (ex- Harmonium)/guy-who-claimed-he-got-beat-up-within-an-inch-of-his-life-by-teenage-girls ( http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/19...

bleh. wrote:i'm really tempted to put c9/c10 back into my cek12

have you done anything to c8?
i've been told that replacing the electrolytic with a poly film cap with a value higher than the one i put in (.68uf) can help extend the bass response.

Was that the Dale guy from Calgary on Prodigy Pro?
I was considering ordering one myself...

i have one with the following mods: cek-12 capsule cinemag cm2480 transformer c9 and c10 removed cathode follower removed .68uf poly film cap in C8 (twas a bitch get in there) most of the inner mesh removed. NOS 6072a tube i copied most of the ideas from a guy over at studioforums. I believe the bas...