I work at a music store working on and repairing old decks and whatever comes through the door. It's a very wide scope that I work on... I've restored several reel to reels since I've been here and this unit has been vexing me for over a week.
It won't go into auto reverse and also will not...
Hello, I have bought Akai X201d reel to reel player. Everything was OK on the 1st day, on the 2nd , suddenly during some routine operation like rewinding or pause/play, I don't remember exactly, it switched the play direction. Pressing the auto-reverse buttons didn't help, switching the player...
I have been testing my X7R for the first time and trying to get auto reverse going. I have read the instructions and have the correct settings. I am wondering whether the sensing foil is my issues. Any thoughts?
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Rich
Greetings - question about this deck. Mine works fine, but I don't know if the left cassette well is supposed to stop after a cycle of Side1-to-Side2 play. Mine plays continuously with no shut-off after Side 2. I see no switch that typical auto-reverse decks have, for single-side play...