I would really like to get my hands on one of these. Just like the original poster of this thread, in the pursuit of better sound quality, I found myself spending more time engineering with a TEAC 3340S , and then a Fostex R8 and ended up with very little music to show for it. I tried the digital thing with my computer and with the exception of one great experience with a very early version of Audacity (recorded a tune with about 10 tracks of instrumentation in about an hour. It was very easy but I never got the same experience when I tried it about a year later), I just can't get down with the digital thing. I need a machine that I can touch. When I was rather prolific years ago, I could finish 3-4 songs in an 8 hour day with a little 4 track cassette porta-studio. Low-fi , but alot of character and really not that bad sounding. Not much shittier than Stones demos I've heard since. So, I would like to get back to the 4 track cassette format and I saw an AT RMX 64 in a music store in San Fran about ten years ago and it was really impressive looking. Probably could've snagged it for a hundred bucks or so. Really heavy, though, so shipping will be a bitch if I can find a decent one that's not to close to Providence, RI where I am currently domiciled. Might actually be cheaper to drive and pickup it up if it's only a few states away, so.....if anyone wants to let go of a decent working one, please let me know. I've got about a double-album of unfinished stuff that I would like to commit to tape before I die which, at the age of fifty, can't be too terribly far in the future(almost kidding).
Thanks,
Jimi