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Nor can you read, Mr. McCoy. SET was the original postulate... your
particular bugbear. And you were strangly silent when that was put
forth. So, exactly what is it that has your panties in a wad? That the
M8 is not SET (never was), or that I mistook it for being PP? (and I am
still searching for the Akai tape amp schematic that I saw that was
PP... I am stubborn when I have what I think is a clear memory). As to
"abusing" Master Ruud, if you have time to hand-hold deliberately
stupid children (as an entirely separate condition from ignorant), you
have more patience than I.

I did a scan for a free online schematic of the M8 as well.

My recollection is that the later tubed Akai recorders with built-in mono
power amplifiers (which AFAIK included some models that were stereo up to
line level), had power amps that were indeed p-p. But, the ones with
stereo tubed power amps were single-ended. IOW, the decision to built
single-ended power amps was related to issues like packaging, not a desire
to go backwards technologically.

I'm sure that just about every AKAI M8, which were sold in huge volumes to
GIs through PXs and not to audiophiles through high end audio stores, has
been safely consigned to a landfill. Of course it takes an maniac like this
Jute sockpuppet to try to globally abuse someone over a tiny nit like this.