Obviously $1500 or so CDN in 1981 might have been better spent on a Revox - but this looked compelling and even then - I was getting pretty good results from two tracks recorded with the Beyer mics. My unit actually didn't accumulate many hours of use - and it may have been a demo damaged by the heat going through a ground floor display window - at one of the posh consumer electronic stores on Bloor Street in Toronto - probably Brack Electronics, 1981. But I was a bit more emotional entranced by the tape deck twenty years ago. I'm not desperate to get the unit fixed - but I must admit I lucked upon a service and repair place, in the NYC area, that worked on these. I guess the school board that that any materials created in Quebec would be risky - since we could end up talking like singer Robert Charlebois - who also found fame in France. They had heavily accented natural French speakers, and they created their lesson tapes in France. The nostalgic aspect of the Uher brand - is it is simply the make that our French teachers used to cart into class every day. Sorry folks I have been so busy that I haven't responded like a responsible Gear-slut - checking this every day. Who can do it and what would it cost?įootnote 1 - The Sound Stars were mainly deployed in conjunction with a Hitachi-built Realistic Cassette deck (circa 1975) The point of this thread - is to resurrect one item - the UHER Report Monitor 4400 to usable condition. I had a pair of Beyer Soundstar mics that were wired with DIN plugs but didn't get too much service there after with the reel to reel. But the two track Yamaha was mainly deployed as a mixed tape slave. My uncle - who worked is still a member of the Audio Engineering Society - took a diagnostic look at it - but didn't tear it apart, and eventually my two-tracking needs were satisfied with a Yamaha Cassette Deck. There must be an expert repair person out there - please come forward. I would be happy if the unit could be restored to run on an external power supply. It was a sunny day in May when I heard the words - Don't you want me baby.

I had my UHER in a padded camera bag, and my white Sennheiser HD 414 headphones plugged and I remember walking down to the Toronto Beaches from my temporary (or short-term) apartment on Kingston Road while I waited to take possession of my $44,000 one bedroom apartment on Don Mills Road (across from the Shell Station. I would love to hear that mixed tape again.ĭo you remember the song - Don't you want me baby? One of those gems. The unit was purchased in 1981 in Toronto and was used on and off for about two years for acoustic jams and what-not, and it was even used once to record a Mixed Tape - on reel to reel.

I am the owner of a UHER Report Monitor reel to reel recorder.

Uher 4000 Report Monitor Manual