Wow, just Wow! I never can get enough of that Esoteric Nando. thanks for the tech on the transport, it's very close if not the same as mine...what the hell is wrong with mine then?? It still munches tapes when it feels like it's hungry?? It's a state of da art drive system.
I would think that they are just about the same, Your V-9000 was made just after my V-8000S, Teac's last breath of the analog tape monster machines for cassette fiend.
That said, I march on with my Denon DN-790R (which Jer has as well) and my dumpster save Luxman K-112 and it's parts donor brother. Two Nakamichi BX-300's. A Teac A-3340 Quad RtR.
Many guests at casa de la stu have been smitten by the sound of analog tape, and have gone out to buy some decks...I convert the masses to analog