Reel 2 Reel

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.

not to brag (i don't even have two of them hooked up to anything) but i have FIVE, including a teac A-6100 two-track master recorder, a teac x-2000R, a teac x-2000M, a tascam br-20, and an otari MX-55N.
almost bought a nagra-D-II on e-bay but chickened out as i do not have enough knowledge to use a 4-track machine that can be interfaced with a win-tel computer. true-24 bit resolution and tons of knobs and switches, 4 VU meters, a rotating digital head- nowadays nagra uses a hard-drive instead of tape, but that's not as much fun to look at...

I have two in my system a Revox A77 half track head,and a Revox B77 quarter track head.To me pre-recorded reels are the only thing that sound better than LPs.The channel seperation is incredible on Electric Ladyland.