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Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 20: The Revox A77 (and a bit about the B77 too)

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It’s rare you can use the term game-changer in the world of reel-to-reel, In the genesis of the format developments came organically, with perhaps only the discovery of AC bias, to radically improve the recorded audio quality, being worthy of that title. But in terms of actual machines that title must go to a product introduced in 1968 by Studer under it's Revox brand name: The A77. 3 heads, 3 motors and tape handing that could match some professional machines. In this episode of...

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