Re: Best Dual Tape Casette Deck?

> I'd hardly consider _any_ two-well deck suitable for "high-end" duping.
>
> If you're really serious about quality, why don't you just buy two
high-quality
> (Nakamichi, Tandberg, etc) decks? It's no big deal to press the Play
button on
> one while pressing Record on the other. And it also makes it easy to copy
> Dolby-encoded masters with the Dolby turned off.

Agreed.  Back in '95/96 I used to record a lot of tapes on a Nakamichi
RX-202, one of the "flipping" models, a neat system really:

- recorded live with stereo mic to MD (original Sony MZ-1!)
- optical transfer to my shiny new PowerMac 7200/120 (laff)
- edited in Logic Audio 2.5.2
- laid out with a gap exactly the length the RX-202 took to reach the end of
side A, flip, and pre-roll the header of side B

That way I could record both sides of the tape unattended with great results
:)

If I were setting out to dupe tapes now, I'd use an RX-202 for playback and
an RX-505 for recording for the same reasons.  They're geat sounding very
durable decks and the mechanical auto-reverse is a great feature which
doesn't degrade play/rec quality like standard reversing transports.  One
hitch though, the RX-202 will fast forward to the end of the side if it
reads 10 seconds of blank tape, not sure if that can be disabled or not.

And back then Denon HD8 tapes were the best bang for the buck, probably
hasn't changed.