"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in
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Indeed. Domestic Ampex machines - or rather those which
were available in the UK - were also very down market
compared to Revox, but with a similar price.

Probably not a fair comparison for several reasons.

(1) Analog tape recorders are high-maintenance items and highly dependent on
well-trained staff to use and maintain them. Supporting an analogcorder in
a foriegn country that was a really big ocean away was not perfected until
the Japanese did it in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

(2) In the 1950s and early 1960s Europe was a source of cheap labor by US
standards. You were still recovering from the war.

(3) One word: tariffs.