New test gear.

[Kenneth Swauger]

Hello,
I bought a Sound Technology 1510A tape recorder test analyzer that can automatically do frequency response, 2nd and 3rd distortion, signal to noise, channel separation, check playback head azimuth, wow and flutter and store data in a digital memory for comparison. Previously I had to make dozens of individual frequency measurements, then convert the voltages to dB and hand draw a graph. This device can do all of that and so much more with a built in test procedure. Fortunately it comes with a well written operator's manual and I'm still learning. I needed two Magnetic Reference Laboratory test tapes to do some of the tests, they should get to me on Friday.
Cheers, Ken,

[steveinaz]

Cool new toy Ken. Makes tweaking head alignment much easier I bet.

[TECHNOKID]

Fine piece of test gear, congrats!

[Kenneth Swauger]

Yea, head alignment was always something that I didn't feel comfortable doing. Now it should be much easier, it uses the phase relationship between the right and left channels as they play a test tape. You're supposed to make the adjustment so one of the display's bars gets smaller and smaller. It will also calculate the number of dropouts per a certain amount of time. If I could find the original test LP I could make turntable tests, but those are impossible to find.

[megasat16]

Very Nice Instrument! A must have for serious Vintage junkie.

[madmax]

Ken finds all the cool stuff...