Fosgate Tate II 101A

[The Quadfather]

Hey Y'all:
Yeah, that's right, I'm a southerner. I set up a discussion for "CD-4 gear that works well" under Discrete formats. So, if you want to list your excellent CD-4 setup, do it there. If your CD=4 setup isn't excellent, don't bother. Anyway, that gets it off the matrix discussion. Thank you,

The Quadfather

 

[dinode]

Quadfather, see my follow-up post in the CD-4 forum.
Dean

 

[sqdave1975]

I know this topic's a bit old now, but since we're doing "buzz comparisons" of Tates, mine is extremely quiet. Only if I put my ear directly onto the casing can you hear a very slight humming.

I was going to also raise the question of whether people would object to a database being made of Tate serial numbers. This would contain the ezboard name of the person - e.g. sqdave1975, model of Tate, eg. Tate II, Tetrasound, S⁣ location, e.g. USA, Canada, United Kingdom; and serial number of unit. I'm curious to know where they all are now. I know a similar scheme was set up to track the Sansui D-1000's. what do you all think?

 

[twoquarts]

i have a tate two that works great not noisy bought it for $ 15.00 had no idea what they are worth? hadit four about 6 years used it once then just stored it mine is missing a knob and the rubeer feet a fewlitte scratches i was offered $100.00 for it is that a good selling price??
any reply would be great thanks

 

[sqdave1975]

Place an ad in the "Swap Meet" section of this board, there are guys on here who are looking to buy, do them a favour first before putting it on Ebay. You'll have no trouble selling it I guarantee, plus no silly fees to pay - and it will go to a good home.

Cheers,

Dave.

 

[Marcsten]

Yeah, and if it works but has marginal looks, you'll get alot more than $100!
Marc

 

[Dwight]

I was listening to Carly Simon's CD-4 version of "No Secrets" on my JVC demod., sometime in the late 1970's, when there was a knock on the door, my Tate101A had arrived! I inserted the Tate into the system and was astonished that the output from the Tate and the output from the JVC were(forgive me) virtually identical! Even the guitar riffs moved from speaker to speaker as they did through the JVC CD-4! I then put on Robert Mason's "Stardrive", and this CD-4 also was reproduced faithfully through the Tate. I went through my entire CD-4 library and "voila" perfection! How do CD-4's decode through the mature QS VM circuit? Anyone? Just as a note of interest, I preferred the CD-4 mix of "No Secrets" to the recent DVD-A mix....... not the sound........just the mix! The CD of the same does not decode through the Tate, it's lame! It was dumb, but I never bought another CD-4 album.

 

[Dolby CP-200]

Hello I was doing a search on all sorts of things from crossover Linkwitz-Riley and somehow found myself reading about “Fosgate-Tate II Decoder” I put simple search in Google image in an attempt to find a picture of this decoder that use a (Re-Eq) feature that was first seen on the decoder unit around 1981. Are there any pictures of this decoder about?

 

[Dolby CP-200]

Well hold on I continued to search around being stubborn as I am and stumbled across a site that had a few pictures of the “Fosgate-Tate II Decoder.” I saved the pictures to my pc in case the pictures would be lost if the site where to go down on the Ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com.hk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260143868943

 

[StarTrek1701]

Does anybody know what the Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MFRP) was for the Fosgate?

 

[WDEMJJ]

Just wanted to let everyone know that there is a Fosgate Tate II 101A listed on e bay. I have one and its great!

 

[StarTrek1701]

Thanks.

 

[StarTrek1701]

I checked it out. The person expects $700.00 to start; $770.00 for Buy-It-Now. Sorry. I don't care how good the unit is. It is not worth that much; half, maybe, but not that much. I hope they choke on it.

 

[ClarkNovak]

I'm with you.

 

[Bloodrum]

Hello,
I'm french (sorry for my english ^ ^)

My father has a tate System II An integrated circuit (chip) (RA 404) is failing.
Do you know where to find this circuit?

Do you have the address, telephone, MR Popham?

All information on this device will be very useful.
Thank you for your help.

 

[bob.stek]

An old thread, but a goodie.

I have the remote for the Tate but minus the connector. Would anyone have a listing or a diagram of how to wire it up to the DIN connector?

Many thanks in advance.

Dr. Bob

 

[Quadjac]

Hi guys, just have some interesting info about the famous "buzzing" noise from the transformer that I just figured out, if you take the heavy plate on bottom off the buzz noise is almost gone to a faint hum, the wife, who doesn't get into may passion for this stuff, even noticed it right away... I'm thinking that the field off the transformer is being induced back into the transformer...anyone else think this could be the issue??? Now thinking of ideas for a new bottom plate???

Any thoughts...
Quadjac

 

[sjcorne]

Just got one of these today and I've pretty much spent the day spinning SQ discs! The front-to-back separation is unbelievable...the front-center vocals are almost fully suppressed in the rears.

I've particularly enjoyed revisiting those few Columbia SQs that haven't had a discrete release- Turnstiles, Native Sons, Energy To Burn, etc. It really brings out every last bit of separation in the B.T. Express album- that may become a demo quad disc for me.

However, one weird thing I'm noticing is that the unit seems to be better at cancelling any element isolated in the right rear position in the fronts compared to left rear. I first noticed it on Jeff Beck's "Ice Cream Cakes"- listening to the fronts isolated, the lead guitar in right rear is almost entirely erased while the piano/keyboard in left rear is suppressed, but still audible. I then noticed it again in Loggins & Messina's "Angry Eyes", with the sax solo in rear rear wiped from the fronts while the bass in left rear is still somewhat audible. Then again in Dave Mason's "Baby...Please", where David Crosby's right rear harmony is suppressed while Graham Nash's left rear harmony is still somewhat audible. You probably get the point by now...

It's really not a big deal- it's not noticeable at all when listening to the unit in the sweet spot without isolating channels. But it seems strange to me that the front-to-back crosstalk is greater on one side vs the other...I hope it's not a hardware-related issue.

 

[4-earredwonder]

Just got one of these today and I've pretty much spent the day spinning SQ discs! The front-to-back separation is unbelievable...the front-center vocals are almost fully suppressed in the rears.

I've particularly enjoyed revisiting those few Columbia SQs that haven't had a discrete release- Turnstiles, Native Sons, Energy To Burn, etc. It really brings out every last bit of separation in the B.T. Express album- that may become a demo quad disc for me.

However, one weird thing I'm noticing is that the unit seems to be better at cancelling any element isolated in the right rear position in the fronts compared to left rear. I first noticed it on Jeff Beck's "Ice Cream Cakes"- listening to the fronts isolated, the lead guitar in right rear is almost entirely erased while the piano/keyboard in left rear is suppressed, but still audible. I then noticed it again in Loggins & Messina's "Angry Eyes", with the sax solo in rear rear wiped from the fronts while the bass in left rear is still somewhat audible. Then again in Dave Mason's "Baby...Please", where David Crosby's right rear harmony is suppressed while Graham Nash's left rear harmony is still somewhat audible. You probably get the point by now...

It's really not a big deal- it's not noticeable at all when listening to the unit in the sweet spot without isolating channels. But it seems strange to me that the front-to-back crosstalk is greater on one side vs the other...I hope it's not a hardware-related issue.

Jonathan, sounds promising but do you have any plans to invest in Chucky's new Surround Master when it's finally released?