Well we bought a brand new Sony video a few years ago when they were very expensive - think we paid over £400 for it and the tape heads went after about 4 months - and they were repaired and then they went again and it was meant to have new tape heads in about 4 or 5 times and they still kept going. I also had a Sony CD stereo and that lasted under two years before the tape deck packed up on it so I have never bought anything Sony since.

Are you calling me a rogue Snorri - well you certainly know who your friends are

I had the same problem with a VCR, too, and it was an AIWA (it was supposed to be "top of the range" and set us back nearly £500 in 1992)! Tape heads are very susceptible if they are used on "long play" a lot. This saves on tape, but it wears the heads out PDQ. I have a Sony CD player, too (one of the big separate ones), which is both reliable and provides good reproduction, it's been running for over 4 years now. It's partnered by a twin-deck Sony tape machine, a Sony tuner and Cambridge Audio A5 amplifier (which would also have been a Sony, if one had been available at the time).

A rogue? Foxy? If the cap fits.............................................. .....

Snorri
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