Can we finally put Reel to Reel out of its misery? Put it to rest people.

" Not denigrating it but i just feel its a dead end format because the good techs and original critical parts are impossible to find like special heads, motors, mechanisms, high grade audio tape and so on. True R2R Techs are the hardest to find and when you do they are handcuffed by no available original parts."

Vinnie, stop making this stuff up, parts and services are available, use a search engine.

LOVED my Teac X-7R!....If It were a car, it would’ve been one of those Volvos in the old Popular Mechanics magazine ads that racked up 7 figures of miles.  It went in the shop a couple of times more than I’d have preferred toward the end of its usable life but it was Hell when it was well!  In the early days of CDs, I’d make mix tapes (reels) from those shiny, newfangled so & so’s and I liked listening to the tapes better than the discs.  Ah youth...

If you own a R2R , cassette players teac and other Japanese MFG
THERE is a service center that has all original parts ( heads , belts, hardware, cosmetic components and remotes snd much more even manuals Techician and owners ,,,
if you won’t just put your item in google and you will find it..
i needed  a head , meter and a solenoid for my wife’s wollensak 8 track player 8075 and I found it all new pieces

Should we migrate this thread to eBay forum (is there such a thing)?

Or should we just put it out of its misery?

There are 101 reasons to choose digital over tape, but audio quality is not one of them.

Even here, many will agree that digital is a close second to reel, but in the dark silence of late night audio, when audiophiles are at their keenest perception of what is, and what is not, is when reels reign supreme; they breathe life into music.