with or without the operational concerns of how to start a sony dat, i'm wondering if anyone has any experience with my question above.
the wierd thing is that the m1 was taking aes most of the day.
regarding the start up procedure of a sony dat, pause>record places the deck in ready position to release pause without any delay in recording, whereas record>play initiates tape into the rollers, head, etc, potentially causing some users to lose the beginning of the event. taken from first hand experience
please refer to page 10, steps 5 & 6 of the d8 manual for sony authorised start-up procedure.