mhardy6647
Lunatic Member
At a tube hifi gathering in NH yesterday, and courtesy of Charles King and Rich Brown, we got the unusual opportunity to listen to some early generation and master audio tapes. One of these gentlemen brought a beautiful, Swiss-made Stellavox portable R to R to play tapes on. I thought I'd share a picture of this beautiful machine here. Charles said that Stellavox and Nagra ventured into the portable R to R market (for field recording, e.g., for the movie industry) at about the same time. "Nagra won, Stellavox didn't. " You can probably tell that this Stellavox was designed for 5" reels, but also could be adapted (as seen here) to take larger reels... up to 10".
What a beautiful piece of hardware... looks to me as if it were machined from a single block of aluminum.
What a beautiful piece of hardware... looks to me as if it were machined from a single block of aluminum.