R2R restoration about to start on the Repair Shop, bbc1 now
Just bought one of these buggers so that I can start transferring my existing pre-recorded tapes onto 2T (well when I can get my RS1500 sorted anyway).
It records 2T and has 2&4T playback at 7.5 and 15 ips, plus switchable NAB -IEC.
Mine is not a pristine unit like the one below and looks well used.
nice looking RS1500
yes
Yes I can confirm this … it’s a cracking unit still …He is downsizing and would take a decent phono stage as part ex,which should help the sale .I’m happy with my Tascam BR 20 ,again serviced by Alan T
Any use to anyone?
I understand that they are all sold now !
Now I’ve got the Technics back (still waiting for the TEAC X1000M as there’s a few original parts needed to be sourced) I’ve been making a tape for electronic music mad nephew, with some hi-res files through the DAC and recorded at 7.5ips onto Maxell XLi tape.
Said nephew is losing his fruit hearing this crank out Kraftwerk ‘Home Computer’ 
He’ll be bending his parents ears all the way home about getting a 2T R2R 
Now also available in 2” format … a mere Playback only retail €44,100. Playback and record retail €49,000.
All done, it was the pinch rollers that proved hard to find. Should pick it up on Thursday 
Been waiting for a reason to get one
From blue to red , love the tunic change
10K Euro’s + 400 delivery.
Hoping this 7.5ips edition that has just arrived will do a decent job of the rock n’ roll sound track
Just a few tracks…
I’m in correspondence with Ken Kessler at the moment, he’s reviewing something I do but I got to talking with him about R2R as I’d heard he’d started getting interested in it back in about 2017. He like most of us has been focused on collecting & getting the best from the commercially produced 4T tapes (1955-83) & less on the newer Tape Project stuff or the murky underworld that is buying/sharing studio masters.
He sent me a link to some pieces he’s been writing about various aspects for an online mag called Copper that’s produced by PS Audio. Each piece is quite a short easy read but informative. Basically he ran into many of the same challenges we’ve all run into pursuing it as a medium. I don’t quite agree with him on the awfulness of all the British produced mono tapes but would agree about most of everything else. Worth a read, he still writes well.