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I remember coming close to paying £1800 for a new BR-20 in 2003. That would have been very stupid since I needed the money at the time. What really upset me was that they had already sold the last one when I finally did have that much money to spend a year or two later.
That's incredibly annoying. Again... New analogue deck!!
It's my dream to design and build a new analogue reel to reel recorder. I'm positive that it's possible. The whole thing could be built from stock parts and a few milled transport parts. I should really get started soon. I go back to university in October. I'm sure I can find some other guys that are interested in this completely crazy project.
I didn't realise that the ATR-100 was capstanless. It seems like a capstanless design might be more complicated. I assume it would need an optical encoder wheel to regulate the tape speed.