Reel to reel

inna

This whole vinyl thing is a money making industry BS. All the big ticket tables, arms, cartridges, phono stages etc. All we need is good tape decks and good pre-recorded tapes ...

That’s part of the problem - it’s extremely expensive to manufacture high quality pre-recorded tape, because to do that they have to be duplicated in real-time. It’s simply not a practical medium for commercial music.

What amuses me is that the tape advocates here seem to be content with simply using their decks to dub LPs. If you really want high quality recordings, why not use your deck to make your own, using real musicians? That’s where you’ll find the real magic of tape.

orpheus10

When I was listening to playback of a brand new record, just a few minutes ago, I heard record noise, that constant low level noise during silence ...

Hmmm, sounds like a noisy phono preamp perhaps, or phono setup issues. I wouldn't accept "constant low level noise" from my turntable system.

Cleeds

Last time I checked my bank account did not run to hiring Avenged Sevenfold to perform in my garage unfortunately...…...

uberwaltz

Last time I checked my bank account did not run to hiring Avenged Sevenfold to perform in my garage unfortunately ...

Understood, me neither! For that, we have CD, LP, streaming. (In any event you probably wouldn't want to record them in your garage, unless your car space has a lot better acoustics than mine.)

Of course, if Avenged Sevenfold is selling real-time tape dubs of their releases, good for them!

When I got my tape deck years ago I had every intention of recording my daughter on our upright grand piano, together with our son on acoustic guitar. And maybe me on trombone. Yeah...no jokes please.
They used to do an amazing Stairway to Heaven - separately.
But trying to get them in the same room to perform with their schedules was as easy as trying to catch our Savannah cat when she doesn’t want to be caught. Millennials......