DAT-heads Digest #315

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  RE: What dat deck for transferring? (Keith) ("Matt Sohn")


From: "Matt Sohn" <mahatma57@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: RE: What dat deck for transferring? (Keith)
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:34:44 -0500

Ok, second try..

> OK, I need to get my Dats transferred to my hard drive
> before they get too old. I've tried a couple different
> SCSI audio capable drives that give rather poor
> results as far as diginoise, and my d100 has developed
> a nasty tendency of eating my tapes, luckily after I
> have transferred them, so far. So I need to pick up a
> good old Dat Deck that can handle 90m (180 minutes)
> tapes. I imagine I'll be watching ebay, so what model
> should I be looking for? What is the taper
> standard/workhorse dat machine for transferring?
> Thanks all.
>

I recommend the Sony R-500. It has the best error correction I have
encountered, and is a fine machine all-round.
I picked one up on ebay last November for under $300. There are currently 5 
units currently listed there.
I have also had great success using the Sony SDT-1000 DDS drive, although 
it's a big pain to get it configured on the computer... It won't work with 
tapes that don't have ABS, however.

-Matt 



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