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Reel to reel

I’m entertaining the idea of purchasing a reel to reel to record my albums on and also use to possibly soften the digital age a bit. Does anyone know where or if NEW blank tapes can be purchased? Are there any thoughts on a resurgence of R2R and if blank media will become more easily accessible?
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cleeds
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benjie
I have restored both of my R2R decks, Techincs RS-1500 2 track and Revox PR99 MkII. And I can say without a doubt that there is no "euphoric distortion" generating circuit in either deck.
I’m sure there’s no circuit in either deck designed to generate distortion, be it euphonic or "euphoric." The distortion - however slight or pleasant - is just a consequence of imperfect electronics.
I don’t think the term existed 35 or 40 years ago ... Sorry I am going to have to call BS on that one.
You might want to do some research on this matter, which dates back to at least the 1940s. For example, see Brockbank, Weiss (if I recall correctly) from the IEEE journal. This is a very well-studied field.
fleschler
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My experience is that many CDs kill the LP versions.  Columbia classical is one label that excels on CD.  Example, Mitropoulos conducting Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet.  Original first stamper and later stamper Columbia, Odyssey reissue, first CD issue all sound muddy to an extreme.  The latest CD issue 100% clears up the mud and presents an exquisite sounding recording which is on the master tape obviously.  The reason I have so many CDs now is because of the excellent remastering of classical and many jazz CDs (like Mode LPs were only mono, the later stereo issues were dreadful pressings, now issued in superb CDs).  Also, Marston mastering of 78s is phenomenal, playing acoustic recordings back correctly is a huge pain and owning/storing 100,000 78s is too great a challenge.

I hated CDs until the early 2000s when I heard players which made the digital tracks sound more like analog.  Now I own an EAR Acute and think about upgrading to a COS Engineering DAC unit which was mind-blowingly good.  
inna
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It is BS.
benjie, which one of your decks do you like more ? That Revox is two track too, right ?
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