Hi everyone, I'm Roberto from Turin in Italy. I'm the proud user of three R2Rs: TEAC X2000R, TASCAM 34B and AKAI GX-625. Everyone enjoys excellent health, the necessary mechanical maintenance is performed by myself as well as maintenance. The problem of spare parts has been solved by purchasing other identical machines to be used as donors. If necessary of course! Recently, state television has had the assembly and alignment of at least a dozen or so new STUDER A810 machines performed by RAI in the warehouse. This is to be able to "read" the numerous tapes still present in their archives, digitize them in order to have a security back up. The reel recorder is not "dead" or even in agony. It is no longer used for many years in the production of music in the studio, with results that we can all listen to: poor dynamics, extension to the extremes of very limited band, "flat" studio recording. I will not separate myself from my R2Rs, it is enough to put a well-recorded reel to be able to hear a detailed, warm, full-bodied sound! I also use a DBX 224 noise reducer and a DBX 3BX dynamics expander with exceptional results. Often it also improves music by recording it from CD to R2R!