Good Reel-To Reel Blank RecordingTape

cleeds

I have ripped all 1500 of my cds to a hard drive and put my cd's in storage.  I have subscriptions to Qobuz, Amazon Music Unlimited HD, Pandora and Napster.  I have just installed Roon to my streaming rig, and I'm thrilled with it.  At 70 years of age, convenience is paramount, of course without sacrificing excellent sound quality.

I have maybe a few hundred or so LP's that were never released on cd or in any digital format.  A lot of those albums have only one song on the album that's listenable.  I'm not going through the trouble of retrieving and playing those LP's for one song.  I'm going to make a playlist of those LP cuts and record them to RTR.  Besides, I love the sound of open reel recordings made from LP's.  If you've ever heard an LP recorded to open reel, you'd know what I mean.

Oh, and one other thing, I own a black Teac X-2000R open reel deck, and it is beautiful.  I get to enjoy a beautiful audio sculpture while I listen to great music.

Of course, I will still play my LP's periodically, I have over 3,000 of them, but for convenience purposes, if I have that recording on my hard drive or on Qobuz, I'll probably listen to it there rather than play the LP.  Streaming music is now the overwhelming way I now listen to music.  That being said, I will never give up my analog rig...EVER!!

teo_audio

Thanks for the info, I'll check it out.

I'm only interested in brand new tapes...I don't need the risks associated witn new old stock tapes.

RMG SM911, RMG SM456 are good new production tapes.

Otherwise NOS, at relatively high prices, like Maxell UDXLI, UD, TDK Audua, Sony FeCr, Basf SM911, Agfa 456, Scotch 206, 207, 226, 227. All of them are high output, low noise, and do not show sticky problems, if stored with care.

Better check also your R2R and welcome to an expensive format.

I have a large cabinet of reel recordings of lp's. No reason to roll any of them except the 4 channel ones.

In my first job at a HiFi store in 1973, the demo material was all recorded on a Pioneer RtR machine from a Dual 1229 with an Audio Technica AT15 (nude Shibata) using a Mac C28 preamp.  Playback through MC2105 into our favorite speakers…ESS AMT-1 Towers. Carly Simon No Secrets, There Goes Rhymin’ Simon, Loggins and Messina Full Sail…early Telarc classical, and for the owner, some Frank Sinatra.  All sounded really good to me.  Store wired with 14 ga. Brown PVC zip cord.  Noel Lee made the scene next year!