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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Tupp,
TWO RT-707's ???
I admire a guy with style! :cool: |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Or just too cheap to throw our crap that ain't broke. That's how come I got that same wife I came with.
I didn't just type that out loud, did I?
Jeff; I really liked Boston. I have a soft spot for pop that really works. and without Tom Sholtz, the eighties would have sounded........like he wasn't there. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | without Tom Sholtz, the eighties would have sounded........like he wasn't there. Gotta agree... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by cholloway:
Tupp,
TWO RT-707's ??? Actually a 707 and a 701. Same unit except 701 does not have bi-directional playback. I have two to mixdown compilations from one to the other.
Hey Brad, those are the machines that resurrected Moon Doggie & The Space Yodelers, or what ever the hell your band was called ...
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I have some old player piano rolls, does that count? I also have an 8-track quadaphonic system with about a half dozen tapes that played only one way, thereby providing 4 individual stereo tracks. The effect was exceptional, but the idea never took hold. It was 25 years ahead of its time and eventually reappeared in the form of digital surround sound. |
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Location: NJ | Back in '75-76, we had a NewYork FM Rock station that used to broadcast in Quad.
Lasted about two weeks. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Cliff, two weeks for the quad broadcast was only a few months shorter than the lifespan for the quad tape machines. I was one of the first in my high school to install an 8-track in my car. The year was 1967. My friends chose the 4-track. I think it was produced by Muntz or something like that. Within a year or two, everybody had switched over to 8-tracks. The cassette decks were still a few years out. |
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Location: St Louis | Originally posted by Tupperware:
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I was one of the first to put a cassette deck in my car that had an autoreverse. A Bell and Howell. Cut a hole in the center panel in the dash of the Javelin. It was cool until I hit a bump and it would reverse by itself.
I remember seeing 8 track tape laying all over the highways.
Still have my first Sony reel to reel and a bunch of tapes. |
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Location: Tennessee | I had a Panasonic quad rig with turntable that I bought in the mid 70's. It is long gone, but I still have a number of quad albums, including "Buddha and the Chocolate Box" by Cat Stevens.
Another one was "The Best of the Guess Who", which put me in the club of having the album on 8-track, cassette, vinyl, and CD.
BTW, the drum riff in "Hand Me Down World" was really cool in quad ... started out back left and circled clockwise to back right.
I actually had an 8-track recording machine and was able to record albums onto 8 track so I could listen to them in the car. I think I may still have some 8-tracks in a box somewhere. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | When 8 tracks first came out, the concept of piracy protection was unknown, largely ignored, or poorly policed. I can remember walking into independent record shops and handing the proprietor a list of songs I wanted on a single 8-track tape. By the next day, he'd hand me the finished tape for half the cost of a new one. And, by and large, the recording quality was very acceptable. I was completely amazed at how he did this and ordered dozens of custom 8-tracks in this manner. This, too, served as a precursor to the custom CD generation. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I own a Pioneer 909 which I believe is/was the 10" version of the 707. Not sure if there were any other differences or not.
Pioneer made some great decks. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Yes, 909 is the bigger version of the 707. 909 has 15 ips, assuming you can afford enough tape.
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Location: big island | i also had "buddha and the chocolate box" in quad as well as the who's "quadrophenia". played 'em on a compact panasonic quad system done in gloss white with black face. i was in the hospital having surgery a few days before my high school graduation. i brought this system in to my hospital room and set up the four speakers around the head of the bed. i recall many doctors and nurses/nurses aides crowding in over the top of me to hear the quad sound. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I still have the Panasonic quad system set up in my living room with speakers in the corners. The 8-track hasn't been used in years, but I have a CD player patched into the aux and the amp and tuner still work just great. It will likely outlast the better gear in the other rooms. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | In '73 I bought a new Mercury Montego that had FM stereo. I'd crank it WFO whenever they played Edgar Winter's FRANKENSTEIN
I thought that sounded SO COOL!!! |
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