Tandberg 9000 X Review 4

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REPRINT FROM "HIGH FIDELITY" OCTOBER 1973

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Tandbergs Best Deck Yet

The low Tandberg 9000K. e threeaepeed (7V1.
3%, 1V. lpe), quarter-track stereo open-reel tape deck in
metal caee with wood aloe panels. Dimensione: 15% by
16% by approximately 1 (including leet and controie)
inches. Price: 3649.50: optional RC-D remote control.
$79.50, Manufacturer: Tandberg. Norway: UtS.diatr1bu-
torr Tandberg ol America. Inc., a third Aver, Pelt-am.
NY. 10803

Corr-here: Yandberg, always a company With ite own
ideee about tape-recorder deaign. nae done it again:
Therethinaingoltheeholeawtectolhowatape
recorder should beet be deeigned. begun with the
box. I: cam-a cmmbty hither with the 9000]
While lta penormance ie therelore hard to compare
directly to that ol competing unite-and even harder to
document within the "normal' framework oi tape-
equipment teeta baeod on more conventional aqqu
ment-it deeervea an unueuelly long. hard look on both
our pert and yours.

The heart of immerse rethinking I: in ita approach
to metering The "true" VU rneter need In proieeeional
equipment (though. edverietng aetde. In relatively lee
home unite) ie a precieeiy deilned device Iehoae charec-
tereuca ere predictable (to the protesaconet) it nerdy
Ideal (tor the layman) Tandberg hae acrapped every~
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barn) and held long enough to be read (flroieeeional
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true valuee-or OCCW above. depending on my
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and. it rm the anodized ergnel ecluehy being led
to the record head. rather than the raw incoming Iignal
This is important because program material with high-
ievei high-irequency inlonnation can be driven into all-
uratlon on the tape due to high-lrequency equalization
bout-particularly et alovr transport epeede-beiore
conventional metere will indicate the overload. Since
ngl metere read the eignei that e actualiy being
recorded. they can dlepenee with normal eatery mar-
gina.andaeueteinedmldrangetoneatovuonthe
mxemehreeitlbarecordedmorethan lOdIhtgher
MarionethatreaaoVUoncorwentionaimeten The
importance ol theee tecte vvil emerge as we diecuee the
memremente on the 9000X.

The metering is by no nieane the only unconventional
aepect oi the deeign. however Tandberg uaee a clever
clcue contigurebn in it mite Inpute an that the
Drum I. In Cheat. Mediating I) the Me'l ID900-
ance. Thenputtreoording) controlleln thelead-
hacirbopin aconliwrallon thatvnllencompaeaen un-
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etgntlicant Ioee in dynamic renge The WNW hae en
unueud range at cacaouiliee that 'eicluoe ouch nioetiee
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