Sony PCM-3102
A quarter-inch, two-channel DASH recorder built in Sony's MCI plant — the machine that carried digital masters out of the multitrack room and into the editing bay.
Overview
The PCM-3102 is a two-channel digital audio recorder, part of Sony's PCM-3000 series of DASH (Digital Audio Stationary Head) machines, and it runs quarter-inch tape at 7½ ips; Sony positioned it as part of an established industry format, noting that over 200 Sony systems were already in use (Studio Sound, December 1986, p.21).
That speed figure matters more than it looks: the companion PCM-3202 uses the same track configuration but runs at 15 ips specifically to make razor-blade editing off the analog cue track easier, so the 3102 sits at the slower, more tape-efficient end of the two-channel DASH lineup. Both machines share the DASH standard's 48- and 44.1-kHz sampling rates.eBay Listings
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