Reel to reel

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......

Off topic but as Chris mentioned it.


Glad to see we are not the only exotic cat nuts here.

2 Savannah, 2 Bengal and 2 rescue moggie.

It can be " interesting" in our house at times!

In regard to the playback being better than the LP from the TT; that does seem impossible; the funny thing is, I just enjoyed it without ever thinking about it, but now that this fact is being questioned, I'm forced to think about it.

There have been many threads here about "phono-preamps". The signal from the cartridge; is that the original before it reaches the phono-pre? How many times have you read how tremendously one phono pre improved the sound over another?

On playback, the magnetic signal on the tape is the same as the signal from the cartridge that goes to the phono-preamp ,  If phono-preamps make such a difference, why not the internal amp in the reel; those amps would make the same difference as phono-preamps.

orpheus10

In regard to the playback being better than the LP from the TT; that does seem impossible; the funny thing is, I just enjoyed it without ever thinking about it, but now that this fact is being questioned, I'm forced to think about it.

That's fine. And it's fine if you prefer an LP tape dub to the LP itself. That's a legitimate preference. It's only an issue when someone states that the dub is technically superior to the LP itself.

On playback, the magnetic signal on the tape is the same as the signal from the cartridge that goes to the phono-preamp

No it isn't. The tape is made from the output of the phono preamp. It cannot recreate information lost between the LP and the phono preamp output. But again, that doesn't mean that you can't prefer the dub to the LP.

Orpheus10.  Will do on contacting Pioneer for parts for refurbishing my RS-1506.  Thanks.
gusser