Thorens
TM 1600
Introduced 2020$13,500 MSRP
The TM 1600 is a purist, playback-only quarter-inch reel-to-reel deck built for Thorens by German boutique tape-machine specialist Ballfinger, sharing its compact transport with Ballfinger's own M002P and its plinth design with the companion Thorens TD 1600/1601 turntable (The Sound of Tape).
MSRP
$13,500
Used market · Mint
$8,600
-36% vs MSRP
as of Sep 1, 2026MSRP to used market
From $13,500 at launch to $8,600 today.
Specifications
- Motors
- Three motors — two directly driven brushless reel motors with Hall-sensor feedback plus a belt-driven, ironless bell-rotor capstan motor
- Counter
- Real-time digital counter (hours/minutes/seconds/hundredths)
- Tape format
- Quarter-inch, half-track playback, reels up to 10.5 in / 28 cm
- Tape speeds
- 19 cm/s and 38 cm/s (7.5 ips / 15 ips)
- Equalization
- Switchable CCIR / NAB
- Output level
- Studio-standard 1.55 V
- Power supply
- External outboard power supply for reduced interference
- Manufacturing
- Built by Ballfinger in Düsseldorf, Germany for Thorens
- Production run
- 100 individually numbered units
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