Reel 2 Reel

Akai GX-400D - original owner, black & silver w/blue meters, purchased Japan, 1975. Never been in for repair/serious maint (knock on wood!!!!). Mint, not one nick. Oh, have the 25 foot wired remote (about 1/2 the size of a carton of cigarettes). Ha.

Love it --

I use a Technics 1500. Don't have many reels yet but the ones I do are rare Pink Floyd braodcast tapes.

I've got a Tandberg 9241X. I've mainly used it the past couple of years to convert my open reels to digital. I had to recently get my rubber rollers rebuilt and one always worries about the availability of parts to repair or maintain a 30 year old machine. I'd have a hard time justifying day to day use.

I use mine a lot. Recently purchased an Otari MX-5050BII2 and also have a (Dolby-equipped) Teac A2300SD. My pristine Teac X-1000R will soon be offered here on Audiogon for local (DC area) pickup. Even I can't justify having THREE R-R machines :-)

Dave

I have two sony's, one the TC-580 is used all the time with pre-recorded tapes. It has an autoreverse that automatically senses the end of one side and does the reverse. Many of the r2r tiles I have, I also have the vinyl and cd versions. R2R, does sound best. I also have some dolby b tapes and its processor, sounds even better. For classical stuff, the Barclay and Croker tapes will best vinyl, especially the Vanguard tapes.