In article , Stewart Pinkerton
wrote:
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:40:33 +0000, Chris Morriss
wrote:


V2000 technically should have been head and shoulders above the rest,
but they were perhaps too sophisticated to be reliable in the rough and
tumble of everyday use.

I've never quite understood this. Why do distribution media for use in
a stable domestic environment have to withstand 'rough and tumble'?

Well, I also had a V2000 for some years and was quite happy with it.
However after a while it began to misbehave. Turned out to be due to the
mechanical assembly slowly warping by minute amounts and putting the system
out of alignment. Someone else I knew had a similar experience. My
impression is that the recorders were vulnerable to this kind of thing.

Above said, it lasted over 10 years, so hardly a serious
design/manufacturing problem for a standard consumer item. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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