Akai 81D vs. Akai 82D vs. Telex Viking 811- there's more to it than frequency response

in the past week I dug out my Akai 81 and 82 decks and compared them
CLOSELY to the Telex Viking

The Akais lived up to their rep and published specs on freq response,
one can hear a little more cymbal and highs using the Akais.

But to be quite honest, the Telex 811 has a more pleasing sound
overall- and stronger midrange/bass response.

I'm going to go out on a limb here, after nearly 6 years of comparing
decks from Ebay and other sources- to declare the Telex Viking 811 the
best deck ever made for sound quality. And it swithes tracks reliably
too.

I dubbed a Aerosmith-Get Your Wings from the 81D to the 82D, then
replayed it in the 82D- wanting to see if the low-bass crosstalk would
disappear.

Guess what- even if you make a tape on the 82D, there is STILL
crosstalk when you play it back in the 82D- and the tape was bulk
erased before making the dub. There is slightly less crosstalk than
usual, but it's there nonetheless.

So I'll go further out on a limb, to state the 81D is the best Akai
deck ever made. The glass head on the 82D is just too damn finicky.

On 8 Mar 2007 05:17:31 -0800, "duty-honor-country"
wrote:

in the past week I dug out my Akai 81 and 82 decks and compared them
CLOSELY to the Telex Viking

The Akais lived up to their rep and published specs on freq response,snip

How would you know? You have no equipment, no credible experience in
electrical metrics and are a well known bull**** artist.

But to be quite honest, the Telex 811 has a more pleasing sound
overall- and stronger midrange/bass response. snip

Akais are notoriously weak in bass because they biased the head gaps
more toward playback and high frequency response. At audio
frequencies, there's always a trade-off between bass and top end. Of
course, you wouldn't know that, would you?

I'm going to go out on a limb here, after nearly 6 years of comparing
decks from Ebay and other sources- to declare the Telex Viking 811 the
best deck ever made for sound quality. And it swithes tracks reliably
too.

I dubbed a Aerosmith-Get Your Wings from the 81D to the 82D, then
replayed it in the 82D- wanting to see if the low-bass crosstalk would
disappear.

Guess what- even if you make a tape on the 82D, there is STILL
crosstalk when you play it back in the 82D- and the tape was bulk
erased before making the dub. There is slightly less crosstalk than
usual, but it's there nonetheless.snip

That's because you don't know what you're doing and use a ****ty GC
Electronics duped alignment tape, the very same one you use for your
eBay fraud tapes. to try to line up a head. The head alignment
procedure on an Akai is much more complex that diddling two screws.
Too complex for a 'tard like Charlie Nudo to accomplish successfully.

So I'll go further out on a limb, to state the 81D is the best Akai
deck ever made. The glass head on the 82D is just too damn finicky.snip

Another BS statement from the king of BS, Charlie Nudo, aka
66-catalina.

How would you know? You have no equipment, no credible experience in
electrical metrics and are a well known bull**** artist.

Yet you're the guy who never owned an 8-track deck until 2 years
ago....


Akais are notoriously weak in bass because they biased the head gaps
more toward playback and high frequency response. At audio
frequencies, there's always a trade-off between bass and top end.


WRONG- the 82D has the best bass response of all- it's just that the
glass head exhibits excessive bass bleedover

That's because you don't know what you're doing and use a ****ty GC
Electronics duped alignment tape, the very same one you use for your
eBay fraud tapes. to try to line up a head. The head alignment
procedure on an Akai is much more complex that diddling two screws.

The best alignment tape is the music tape being listened to at the
time- what good is alignment if there is bleedover. That's why the
best decks had EXTERNAL HEAD ADJUSTMENT KNOBS.

Perhaps you should pick the stick out of your own eye, before you dig
the log out of everyone else's eyes on Usenet- if you're the type that
resorts to personal attacks, when debating 8-TRACK TAPES AND PLAYERS,
you have some serious personality issues of your own to deal with. 8-
tracks are the least of your issues.

On 10 Mar 2007 04:39:24 -0800, "duty-honor-country"
wrote:


Perhaps you should pick the stick out of your own eye, before you dig
the log out of everyone else's eyes on Usenet- if you're the type that
resorts to personal attacks, when debating 8-TRACK TAPES AND PLAYERS,
you have some serious personality issues of your own to deal with. 8-
tracks are the least of your issues. snip

More psychological "projection" from Charlie Nudo aka 66fourdoor aka
66-catalina aka 8trackaudio...a wannabe audio "enthusiast" who knows
nothing but wants others with no knowledge to think he's an "expert."

The tale of his long legacy of Usenet harassment and buffoonery speaks
otherwise. He also think that because he "cancels" posts on "goo goo
groups" that they disappear. They do not.