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Need input

Hey all,

I'm thinking of adding a reel to reel just to have it. I ran across a Pioneer RT-707 reel to reel here at home that has been used and maintained in a professional atmosphere. The heads and caps have been recently replaced as well as the pinch rollers. The owner has retired and sold all his professional gear and is letting this go for 300.00...Seems to have good reviews. Any one know these units? Again, I have my regular set up...but just like having some old nice vintage stuff around to dink with...and they are good conversation pieces. Pls let me know your thoughts.

M
mormark

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millercarbon
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Yeah. Same here. Its the one additional piece of gear I would buy, and I am damn stingy with my purchases.
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I had another Pioneer RT for years back in the day. Heads, caps and pinch rollers are exactly what you want to see maintained. If it weren't for the impending zombie apocalypse I would be trying to talk you out of it in order to steal it out from under you. Because that is the one and only piece of gear in all my life that I ever really wish I had kept. There's something about open reel, the sound quality, you put up with just the barest faintest whisper of tape hiss in return for this glorious quality that somehow makes everything you dub into it better. I don't know how it just does. 
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