Vinyl cutting Studer A80 with prelisten Head

[philbrown]

Originally Posted by Paul Gold

If you have the pieces...Making a head block wouldn't be easy or cheap. The top plate cutout for a standard deck is smaller than the preview head block so you just need to cut the standard one.

I had a 1" stereo preview deck made recently. It wasn't cheap.

Whose electronics?
Phil Brown

[Paul Gold]

Originally Posted by philbrown

Whose electronics?
Phil Brown

Stock, carefully tweaked to each head section with a modern op amp, new caps and removal of stuff that isn't needed for a playback only machine.

My point was that if you don't have a preview head block than conversion would be difficult. With one it's easy.