fancy tape recorder

[hifijohn]

sundance tv is rerunning the great bob newhart show and in the "A Crime Most Foul" episode bob buys a very fancy portable tape recorder.he paid $420 for it which makes it over $1600 today.It doesnt look like a prop but an actual piece of equipment,it has a bunch of silver knobs and 2 level meter on the side,bob mentions the name but its just a made up japanese sound name. anybody have any idea what it might be.personally I dont think bobs character would pay that type of money just to record his therapy group.

 

[jdurbin1]

Sounds like a Nagra...

John

 

[Omegaman]

It smacks of WaterGate

It appears to be a cassette deck

 

[hifijohn]

Sounds like a Nagra...

John

thats what I thought but it was a cassette recorder and had 2 'yellow'VU level meter,didnt NAK have something like this back then??

 

[jdurbin1]

Nak did have the 550 portable, also Marantz had a series of portables with two round meters on one side but not in yellow:

Here's the Nak 550:

The Nak is a monster in terms of size, the Marantz more like the Nagra. But, those are both cassette decks... was the one you saw an open reel?

Edit: n/m, just picked up the note that it was a cassette deck...

John

 

[mfrench]

there is also the Sony TC-D5M portable cassette deck. I've run miles of tape through one:

And the Sony WM-D6C Walkman Pro (more miles through this one):

And a Uher unit, somewhat similar to this (a few different models):

 

[hifijohn]

Nak did have the 550 portable, also Marantz had a series of portables with two round meters on one side but not in yellow:

Here's the Nak 550:

The Nak is a monster in terms of size, the Marantz more like the Nagra. But, those are both cassette decks... was the one you saw an open reel?

Edit: n/m, just picked up the note that it was a cassette deck...

John

Nak did have the 550 portable, also Marantz had a series of portables with two round meters on one side but not in yellow:

Here's the Nak 550:

The Nak is a monster in terms of size, the Marantz more like the Nagra. But, those are both cassette decks... was the one you saw an open reel?

Edit: n/m, just picked up the note that it was a cassette deck...

John

when I first saw it i thought it was one of those portable video recorders, they were big back then,then I thought it was a RtoR.but the NAK 550 seems to be the closes fit, in one scene bob hits the eject button and the cassette pops up from the left side.But as I said i the OP,I doubt if his character would spend that much money a recorder just to record his therapy group.

 

[jdurbin1]

I think the 550 might have cost more than that new, also... whatever it was, if it had two meters it probably exceeded the requirements for recording people sitting around talking

John