On 16/02/2011 14:00, Arny Krueger wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in
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Krueger wrote:
However, Ampex audio recorders were never popular in the
UK - and I'd guess the same applied to EMI in the US.

IME the only EU tape recorder brand to get any serious
market penetration in US was Studer/Revox. The Revox
machines were relatively light duty boxes by the
standards we're talking, which is not to say that they
lacked durability as they were typically used.

Studer pretty well took over the pro market here too - as
others dropped out. Revox were just about the only
machine for high end domestic or semi pro use - as again
others dropped out of the scene.

When I was in Germany in 1970, a Revox rep said that they were running (a
little scared) from the Japanese. They did a really good job of that for at
least 10 years.

As teenagers we dreamed of the Revox A77
but the best any of my friends could afford was an Akai 4000DS

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Eiron.