sigurd@uiucuxc.UUCP (07/22/83)
#R:ihlpf:-17500:uiucuxc:18500005:000:975 uiucuxc!sigurd Jul 21 18:36:00 1983 If you are going to look into Harmon Kardon equipment beware: A year ago Christmas, I purchased a 300xm for the exact reasons that the previous gentleman mentioned (nice frequency response, compatible with UDXL2's, a few handy toys to play with on it: Music search, Record calibration(?), bias fine tuning, etc). But last Thanksgiving I took it in to be fixed (the music search was searching without silencing) and after being run around from service dept to service dept and finally directly to HK in New York. The bottom line? SEVEN MONTHS in the shop. I was sick about it but my hands were tied. And to top it off, it came back with the front slightly scarred and the HX (headroom extension) calibration screwed up. I've given up on HK as far as the service goes! I just want to stop piddling around and get a real deck: Maybe a Nakamichi or Revox. I don't know, however, how the recordings from these decks would perform on the Alpine. -Good luck sigurd