RoKKo wrote:
I big studio has recently closed and the owner has brought me 2 1/4"
Revox PR99 with the monitoring and original rack. I'd paying $200 for
each...which should be cheap for what they are.
Now, the problem is that they both need to be serviced. What I wanted
to know is essentially about how reliable they really are, and if they
are easy to repair in any case.

They are basically B-77 machines. Parts are mostly available and they
are mostly easy to work on.

Alignment is a pain in the neck because of where the alignment controls
are; you can't easily get to them when the machine is in a rack and your
arms are bent around the side while you watch the meters. But it's not
that bad.

The one nightmare is that the button assembly is one plastic molding, and
if it breaks, the machine is effectively unrepairable because even when they
were available, the assembly cost more than the machine was worth.

$200 is a reasonable price if the heads are in good shape.
--scott

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