Wanted [alive]: Otari MX-5050II

[OldiesButGoodies]

Let me know if you know of one with heads in decent condition.

[MacGeek]

Pepe-Is the Otari you have not enough:)

[OldiesButGoodies]

The Otari I have is a noble machine that - I feel the need to point this out to papabear and the late Reverend - WORKS  .  It plays back records,  fast forwards, rewinds - all the good stuff.   In other words,  it is not a paperweight with a Studer or Revox badge.  The MX5050II (not the MX-5050) adds bias and record level calibration functionality, and it can play back 4 track tapes. It has a crappy reel-attachment method,  but I can transplant the one in the mx-50 to a 5050II. 

[OldiesButGoodies]

FYI - The MX-5050 has the bias/rec level adjustments but, I believe,  not the built-in oscillator.  Hence searching for a 5050 II or III (aka MX-5050 B2 or MX-5050 B3)

[Sir Thrift-a-Lot]

It's my fault.   I'm the one who suggested he check out an Otari.

[bearjew]

It's my fault.   I'm the one who suggested he check out an Otari.

I think I suggested this too.  Looks like we created a monster... el chupacabra

[Sir Thrift-a-Lot]

We used them in my college AV room.   We had a Revox as well, but it mainly collected dust.

[bearjew]

We used them in my college AV room.   We had a Revox as well, but it mainly collected dust.

We used one in the recording studio at Duquesne.  Duquesne was cheap at the time; wouldn't buy Studier or Revox (up yours pepe!)

[OldiesButGoodies]

The college dorm room management powers at Illinois Tech did not know where to put puertorricans, so they decided to put us in the floors where all the foreigners were.  My room mates in 1980 were from Pakistan, Iran, Syria, several Chinese, some Brazilians and the odd American.  No reel-to-reels, but a lot of cassette decks and crap load of short wave radios - specially the Iranians ,  they loved their Panasonic RF-4900 and similar to keep track of what Khomeini was doing to the hostages.