Reel to reel

 @benjie Yes , studios will often use a RtR to fatten up and compress a track
we do it with electric guitar, Fender Rhodes quite a bit.
you can hear this across the whole multi track mix on The Teskey Brothers- Half Mike Harvest
the CD has all of the dirt, overdrive, distortion, clipping present in the LP
this is also a stellar album and work
perfect at capturing the sound of an era
enjoy the music

Funny how nobody seems to talk about the lower end of r2r or admit to owning a lesser deck.

While my Sony TC-377 is far from state of the art, it’s inherent simplicity and build quality will likely mean it will still be working into the next century.

Nope it will not give that state of the art replay some are experiencing here but I can say that Qobuz hires streaming recorded at 7.5ips on Ampex 641 sounds pretty darn good to myself.

I also really like the retro look of this deck.

I used to have a 377. Nice deck. they benefit greatly from film bypasses on the interstage coupling caps and a fresh power supply rebuild.

Uberwaltz, I had a friend who had a big beautiful Sony reel. The only thing I remember was the big multicolored buttons, and it's silent running.

It's not about whether or not it's state of the art, but whether or not you can get parts, and someone to work on it. Without those two things, I wouldn't recommend any deck.

I recall being in a large sale room that was devoted to nothing but reels. They had models of each major brand: Sony, AKAI, Pioneer, Crown and others; they had 10 and 7 inch models.  I bought a 7 inch AKAI that played cassettes, 8 tracks, and reel.

Sony TC 377 must be a good deck, they're still selling them.