Why no interest in reel to reel if you're looking for the ultimate sound?


Wondering why more people aren't into reel to reel if they're looking for the ultimate analog experience? I know title selection is limited and tapes are really expensive, but there are more good tapes available now than ever before.
People refer to a recording as having "master tape quality",  well you can actually hear that master tape sound through your own system and the point of entry to reel to reel is so much more affordable than getting into vinyl.  Thoughts? 
scar972
Most people don’t feel the need to broadcast their short attention spans nor their need to be coddled only with opinions or facts they like.
geoffkait22,562 posts06-10-2020 10:52am

I got as far as, “I honestly believe...”

My guess, off the top of my head, is that they found company.
I hope they never get educated.

geoffkait22,562 posts06-09-2020 6:33pm

My guess off the top of my head is you’re in luck. 🤗

It’s just that I don’t believe in reading a lot of pseudo intellectual, pseudo authoritative jibber jabber. I have other things to do, pal. Only 94 posts and you’re already stalking me and giving out free pseudo scientific advice like a regular. Not counting all the other names you had here before, of course. Mr. Roberttdid, Mr. Roberttcan, Mr. Atdavid, Mr. Whiner, whoever. Keep trolling, maybe eventually someone will buy into your brand of jibber jabber.
roberttdid
... your ears tell you what you like, and I honestly believe no one really questions that ...
Plenty of people here challenge  audiophile preferences, which some measurementalists will explain away as "delusion," "tin-foil hat," insanity," and so on.
Where the tensions rise, is when audiophiles assume that because they "like" something, that it must be more accurate ... They will go so far as to make up technical claims, about things they have almost no knowledge about, then defend those claims with passion and vitriol ...
Lotsa measurementalists here do the same thing, then add to the vitriol with demands for scientific double-blind testing and on and on and on and on. There are plenty of people here who "make up technical claims" to support their beliefs - no side has an exclusive on that.