Spooky! Just a week or two ago I dug out my much-loved Akai 4000 (so old it doesn't even have Dolby!) to do the same kind of thing, but the transport has locked and I don't have a small enough allen key to get the front off to investigate. D*mned irritating.

I'll just have to live on the memories unless anyone knows . . . ?

I wholly agree about the sound quality by the way. Analogue recordings sound more open and they . . . er . . . "breathe". I believe that Ry Cooder subscribes to this view as well.

Gray D