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

@sleepwalker65

Chakster you probably can’t find your rap on R2R, but sound quality was never a requirement for rap anyhow.

Oh, it’s you again with your favorite topic.

Sound Quality is a requirement for any genre of music even for a "grandpa country records" you may listening to.

The worst ever "music" often comes from people with the best systems, especially from digital officionados (imo). When i watch those reports from Audio Shows (USA or EU) on youtube i’m getting sick of the selection of music, it’s awful and they have no taste at all (as much as their designers who’s working on all those ugly looking modern "high-end" equipment).

90% of my record collection is properly recorded original pressings of rare 70’s Jazz-Funk, Soul, Soundtracks, Latin Jazz ...some of those obscure old records cost more than your audio components. And none of them available on Reel2Reel tapes, except for the impossible to find studio mastertapes.

The choice of music or R2R tapes is very limited, let’s face it.
The choice of music on vintage vinyl is much wider, fact.

If i could buy what i like on R2R tapes for the price of original vinyl i would love to use tapes, but i think with so small choice of music it’s pointless. I don’t listen to everything just for the sake of quality and my heart belongs to the music from the 70’s (mainly played by black musicians).

P.S. You’d better discuss rap and hip-hop with your kids, each generation has their own music, when older generation blame new generation’s music it sounds like blabling of old f**ts and this is what you’re doing.

Uberwaltz, from a technical point of view, early CD's were not as good as today's CD's. But just as the case of a technically inferior record, you would wind up with the same result; this usually consists of the whole batch, not just one record.

If it sounds bad it's bad, if it sounds good, it's good; whatever your determination in regard to this fact is good enough for me.

Here is a CD I have determined is good from a musical point of view (which is arbitrary) but I also stand behind this CD as very good from a technical point of view; Pat Metheney & Anna Maria Jopek "Upojenie";


          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NXc9Gzg8hY

   

Chalkster, my 3 kids, ages 18, 20 and 23 despise rap as much as I do. They like many formats, but genuinely love Rock. 

I recommend The Ghost Dog soundtrack, and Public Enemy’s Fear of a Black Planet as good starting points.

Maybe De La Souls Six Feat High and Rising. 

A contemporary Hiphop/Rap artist I think will be a good test for all your systems is anything by Oddisee.