Anybody own the Realistic Modulaire 2250? I recently read about the amazing dubbing feature that reads all four tracks at one time when dubbing or copying to the second deck. This sounds kind of cool but it seems to be an extremely rare feature or one that might not have worked as well as they thought. I don't own one so I grabbed a photo from this sale. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-RE...570.l1313.TR1.TRC0.A0.H0.Xmodulaire.TRS0.TSS0
Sanyo built & an earlier (& Better) 2 deck machine! Has a few AKA's there was one on eBay last year......... If you MUST have two decks then this is not a bad option - Both decks are above average quality & have their own motors, not shared like later M.M. machines Sorry Si, I couldn't resist! This is a nice stereo though - Enjoy it
All the AKA's I have seen of this have four track dubbing feature - There is also a scaled down cheaper version without the four track feature! There is nothing clever about how it's done, in fact it's strange not more brands jumped on the four track copying lark - Side A copies forward while Side B is copied backwards resulting in both sides playing back correctly! It's a very cool idea & easy to implement
Cool feature, but kind of wasted on a lower-end brand like Realistic, since they usually lacked high-quality heads, caps, or a stable tape path...…..So the end result won't sound as good as a top-of-the-range JVC/Panasonic/Aiwa/Sanyo
I fell like there must have been some bleed-through or some reason it wasn't implimented more, it should have been standard even on the mass marketed boxes since most of the two deck units were sold for youngsters to copy tapes and speed was always a selling point. Quality was gone, most of the dual deck boxes were crap in the 80's. Were there any high-end boxes or were they all AKA's....
This is the only one I've seen apart from the Sanyo version & that was in the mid 80's so memories are vague! This is not a really bad twin deck, there were far worse! Copied at normal speed on decent type I cassette, the results were acceptable - Chrome tapes played fine but I wouldn't bother recording on one with this type of boombox!
