Hmmm. Anyone know anyone who services Sony in the USA? Maybe the 2500
is worth looking into, given your recommendation. I do have some
difficult tapes, belonging to a client with little budget...
TIA,
Lou
On Jan 21, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Goran Finnberg wrote:
> Lou Judson:
>
>> a donated Sony 2500 seem dead.
>
> The 2500, which is one of the best ever DAT machines when replaying
> difficult tapes, has a lot of rubber o-rings in its mechanism and
> when they
> breaks or stretches given time the machine dies.
>
> This is on top of any electrical fault given its age.
>
> The 2300 is one of the worst DAT machines ever put out by Sony.
>
> Its a one motor machine driving everything and Sony Service in
> Sweden used
> to see them in the hundreds piled up in stacks coming back for
> service and
> they came back very fast after service as they were nearly
> impossible to get
> working reliably mechanically.
>
> Best used as a boat anchor.
>
> The Sony 2700 is one of the best three motor DAT machine ever made.
>
> The mechanism almost works for ever with near zero problems and
> very good
> replay of difficult tapes although the 2500 was in a class of its
> own and
> still is.
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