Vintage Cassettes: Direct Drive, 3 Heads: Sendust

Nice!...what tapes do you use with your HK unit? And where do you find them?...Tdk/Maxell still produce Studio/Pro grade Chrome tapes?

ALso....got a line on a NAD 6100 with remote for a good price...should I bite?...Believe its belt drive...and a later NAD product...which some have issues with. 2 header.

IMHO, I would take the HK CD491 any day over the NAD, IF the HK is working properly and in good shape.

I was very fortunate in that when I closed one of my stores I took all of the blank tape we sold with me.

I have cases of TDK, Maxell, Fuji, BASF, Triad, Sony that will probably last me a lifetime. Not sure if any of the majors sell high quality tape anymore. I'm sure you can find some on E-Bay.

Ivan.

The JVC, TD-V711 was direct drive. A belt drives the second capstan. Heads are Amorphous for Record and Sen Alloy for Playback. All in all a nice JVC from 1989. I owned one for a while.

Les, thanks, that does begin to jog my memory ;)