[Bill Noble]

When I was in high school, the Magnecord 1024 was considered among us "high
school experts" to be THE thing to have - of course none of us had one, but
nonetheless, it was desireable and wonderful and we all wanted one.
Eventually, I got a Tanberg deck that meets my needs (actually,it is a
really excellent deck), and the fancy passed. Then I ran across a 1024
transport locally, bought it, played with it a bit and came to the
conclusion that my house is really crowded and I really don't have a need
for another tape transport, no matter how nice (and it's really nice) - I
don't think even the "pro" decks of today are built this way - though I
haven't looked at a pro deck in quite a while - nice heavy castings, the
transport alone weighs almost 40 pounds - three motors with torque control
on the takeup motors, all solenoid controlled, all those things that we
thought were just beyond cool at the time.

What did kind of surprise me about this unit is that it has two heads, and
a
switch to select head 3 or 4 on the front - without a manual it's a bit of
a
guess, but my other decks have at least three heads (erase, record,
playback, in that order) - this appears to have no erase head - and the
front panel switch is a bit of a puzzlement.

I'm getting rid of it via the usual auction site - I'd like to at least know
what is
going on with the heads before it goes to its next home - anyone know? I
presume the record/playback amp, which I don't have, was a tube type unit -
the info I could find freely on the web didn't really say much about that
part of it. In fact the info on the web is pretty sketchy.

--
Bill
www.wbnoble.com