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[David Crosthwait]

Dennis is correct. The AVR-1 had three modes: Manual tracking, auto tracking or no control track playback. 

Many have said that the AVR-1 was invented to playback VR-3000 tapes from the field! It does do that quite nicely and more.

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On Sep 25, 2014, at 7:18 AM, Dennis Degan via QuadList wrote:

> n fact, it was the only machine capable of playing a tape with NO CT at all (it used RF peaking to track the tape).  Manual tracking was not needed on the AVR-1.  It could automatically find peak RF from the playing tape no matter what. 

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