Tascam 85-16

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Does anyone have any experience with this machine? I am going with a friend to look at one. He already has 2 MSR-16's but he is curious about 1" tape.
VP;)
 
There's word that the original had some problems out of the factory and that the revised "B" version fixed that. I'd personally wanna make sure I was looking at the 85-16B. While I have no direct experience, the word, again, is that it is a very well built recorder, very solid and while it doesn't have the more advanced electronics / transport of later models, it's built to last. I'd bet it sounds very nice.
 
Once in the 80s I had the chance at buying a 1" machine...Im pretty sure it was a tascam...might have been a fostex...I probubly should have made the investment...it was $2400...asking price...and I could have got a few hundred off that.
 
Does anyone have any experience with this machine? I am going with a friend to look at one. He already has 2 MSR-16's but he is curious about 1" tape.
VP;)

We had an 85-16 for evaluation when the model was introduced. The transport was a dog. The B version was reportedly ok.
 
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