Kind of an old thread, and maybe the wrong one. I bought a Tate II before the holidays, it wasn't operating correctly, so I sent it off to Bob Popham. I read the available mod that @Sonik Wiz mentioned and thought the mod mine has is interesting:Edit: It was little known but an option on the Fosgate T II was to lose the tape out put jacks & have a choice of center front & back, or center left & right out put instead. I ordered a black unit with Cf/Cb. I forget exactly but something was damaged or not functioning so I sent it back. What I received back was a silver unit with out the extra chs. Oh, well, at least it worked!
Bob P thought maybe Jim Fosgate had custom built it for somebody.
I just got the Tate back last week and I spent the weekend on a crazy binge of Tate, QSD-1 and SMv3. I must have listened to Herbie Hancock Future Shock alone, 50 times, each album track through a different decoder each time. I listened to others, but that one hit the mark. It was an extremely entertaining binge. The Tate is a really nice piece, very fun.