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I am from Phenix City, Al. and that is just down the road from the old Ampex plant in Opelika Al. It was huge, internet says over 1000,000 Sq.Ft and closed in 2007 but it seems to me its been longer ago than that. I was kinda sad when they closed that place. It was kinda like loosing an old buddy. Always liked cassettes. I like the size and the sound too for that matter if recorded well. CD's seem to jump and slip out of my hands and fly through the sky at random times for some crazy reason. Always hitting the floor at the worse possible spot or angle. The jewel cases are unwieldy to me. The sound is good for sure but I always liked the size of the cassette better. Easy to store too. You know, in one of those brown pleather boxes with the black interior with the shiny chrome latch. lol. You colud grab them from the car and take em right on in to the party on Friday night. That B710 looks like a work of art. I have a Nak RX 202 (needs some work) and a Yamaha KX-650 that sounds really good to my ear. It's cool to see people going for the old cassette format again. Have to agree on the decks though. From what I read there are just no really nice reasonable priced new ones.
 
The best thing about the B710 is the chassis/mechanism. No sliding stamped sheet metal that lets head alignment shift. The deck is cast and machined metal, and the head "carrier" is kind of a Y shape, with the heads on one end, and two precision bearings on the other points, so it smoothly rotates the heads into the tape. 5 motors, iirc, and no belts whatsoever! Takeup, feed, dual capstans, and the head lift. Pretty much a work of art . . . Had to recap once, but that's been it . . . Just sorry that I never found the Studer variant, the A710 . . . same thing, basically, but rack mount and balanced in and out . . . Got mine for a couple hundred each around 2000 . . . now all I see are folks asking more like 3k . . .
 
VSAT88 said:
I am from Phenix City, Al. and that is just down the road from the old Ampex plant in Opelika Al. It was huge, internet says over 1000,000 Sq.Ft and closed in 2007 but it seems to me its been longer ago than that. I was kinda sad when they closed that place. It was kinda like loosing an old buddy. Always liked cassettes. I like the size and the sound too for that matter if recorded well. CD's seem to jump and slip out of my hands and fly through the sky at random times for some crazy reason. Always hitting the floor at the worse possible spot or angle. The jewel cases are unwieldy to me. The sound is good for sure but I always liked the size of the cassette better. Easy to store too. You know, in one of those brown pleather boxes with the black interior with the shiny chrome latch. lol. You colud grab them from the car and take em right on in to the party on Friday night. That B710 looks like a work of art. I have a Nak RX 202 (needs some work) and a Yamaha KX-650 that sounds really good to my ear. It's cool to see people going for the old cassette format again. Have to agree on the decks though. From what I read there are just no really nice reasonable priced new ones.
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I have some Ampex/Quantegy 472 cassettes from Opelika AL and from Peachtree City GA, great type II tapes.

The Opelika one has a That's Suono style shell :
472thats.jpg

The Peachtree City one which looks like a black Sony Metal Master but in plastic instead of ceramic :
472.jpg
 
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