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I expect you'll find Andy M sneaks off to the cupboard under the stairs to gaze at his, when boring people come around!

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How did you know? I do let it out on occasions to play all the stuff I recorded in local radio. Got some rather sour looks from the g/f when she came back to find it on it's trolley in the middle of the living room with it's 10.5inch NAB spools whizzing away at 30IPS (suppose I'm the only one that finds it cool), but she was outnumbered as there 4 of us.

Which reminds me, I need to chase my mate at BBC Birmingham to see if he's still got that Sony PCM700 going spare. I've got about 20 Beta tapes of Sony F1 encoded recordings that I've been unable to listen to.