Two heads are better than one

摘要

My 40-year-old tape deck sat in a cupboard for most of its life. A small problem had developed when it was about ten years old, and I just hadn't gotten around to fixing it. It was a Pioneer T6600 stereo auto-reverse reel-to-reel-quite a prize to have way back then. Not the top of the range, but still quite a respectable recorder that I purchased second hand. The thought of those frozen, gooey belts and drive rollers, worn out switches and myriad possible faulty capacitors bothered me as I didn't want to get started and find that it was beyond my capability.