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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tandberg-Mo...822351?hash=item4d5de5ca0f:g:DxsAAOSwjk9ZVuEq
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tandberg-Mo...822351?hash=item4d5de5ca0f:g:DxsAAOSwjk9ZVuEq
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It is serviced but missing the case and cover, can you still call it excellent?
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Blue Shadow
Waiting for Vintage Gear from this century
If these have the original tubes in them, they may well have a few hundred bucks worth of tubes and the deck is just a great sounding Tandberg that comes along with the purchase.
Looks like it came out of a console stereo.
sheltie dave
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He says it works excellent, which is exactly what the fact is. In the last forty years, I have seen 1 (one) cover, so that is no longer part of what is expected from a great unit. The fact that the case was stripped at one point, and lost in the clouds of time, supports the came-out-of-a-console premise. It would take no time at all to screw it into/on a new faceplate, for either a vertical or horizontal rig mount.
The price is dear, but the Telefunken tubes alone contained in the non-ransacked units are hitting that price level these days, and these tubes have been used very lightly, based on my extensive random collection of these units.
My opinion is the asking price, and accepted value of these Tandbergs, is finally starting to appreciate in a market adjustment toward actual value. As collectors pick off remaining examples of readily available consensus reknown brands, demand shifts to lesser known but well built units. Tandberg is now getting the attention that Crown, Studer/Revox, Nagra, and Ampex have had for years.
The price is dear, but the Telefunken tubes alone contained in the non-ransacked units are hitting that price level these days, and these tubes have been used very lightly, based on my extensive random collection of these units.
My opinion is the asking price, and accepted value of these Tandbergs, is finally starting to appreciate in a market adjustment toward actual value. As collectors pick off remaining examples of readily available consensus reknown brands, demand shifts to lesser known but well built units. Tandberg is now getting the attention that Crown, Studer/Revox, Nagra, and Ampex have had for years.
I have an Ampex F-44 tube that came from a console and looks similar. Being in a console actually preserved the condition well as it had a stable home and was not moved around a lot.
jdurbin1
Tandberg enthusiast
He actually said "excellent" in 100% unqualified way in the listing title, which is clearly not applicable to the physical condition. Lower left corner of the faceplate has a bunged area, and the paint finish is not spectacular.
There are far nicer, 100% complete and all-original 64's out there for far less than the asking price. Why buy a modified so-so pull from a console when you can get a complete machine in better condition for less? In fact, you can get the 64x for less and that's the better machine of that series.
OTOH, he does say you accept his rating by buying the deck... I don't agree nor will I be buying it so we're on the same page with that, at least.
John
There are far nicer, 100% complete and all-original 64's out there for far less than the asking price. Why buy a modified so-so pull from a console when you can get a complete machine in better condition for less? In fact, you can get the 64x for less and that's the better machine of that series.
OTOH, he does say you accept his rating by buying the deck... I don't agree nor will I be buying it so we're on the same page with that, at least.
John
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