Can we finally put Reel to Reel out of its misery? Put it to rest people.

Vinny.

I hate to disillusion you but the 3 head Nak cassettes while good cannot hold a candle to a 7.5 or 15ips recording made on decent tape on even a middle ground R2R machine.

Recordings made straight of Qobuz hires onto 15ips on my Revox absolutely kill the same  recordings made on my Nak.

Shoot, even 7.5ips recordings made on my Pioneer ct701 better the Nak ... And don't get me wrong the Nak does make great recordings.

It's just that R2R is better.

So it maybe a minority media but it is far from dead and dying.

Just check out prices of r2r tapes on eBay, while I do not like some of the high prices it is far from dead!

@uberwaltz what Naks have you owned? I have two sony Elcasets and they sound awesome

Just as my LP's won't work in my CD player, my reel-to-reel tapes won't work in my cassette player.

Hi,
far from dead, most expensive media yes but not difficult to repair, not impossible to find spares not difficult to calibrate and better sounding than any other tape format, and better looking also!

There is something very cool about a 10.5" RTR running at 15ips. It just looks wonderful IMHO. I sold my Revox B77, 2 track HS MK2 deck about 10 years ago and regretted the decision ever since. I noticed at this years Axpona there were quite a few vendors demonstrating equipment using RTR decks, all sounded fine to me. So in then end, if owning/using a RTR deck makes you happy, go for it.