How many People own Working Reel to Reel Decks?

Hello,
What is Spotify?? I know Open Reels are great for recording much music on a tape, with great recording quality. Do you mean from Radio? I do that myself here, with use of audio timer, for late night recording on my TEAC X2000R or AKAI GX-747 DBX. Great machines, but my Tandbergs are still my favorites overall. Ray

Yesterday, I heard a highly modded technics 1500 with some of the TapeProject reel tapes (these are dubbed in real time directly from the master tapes). Very, very, impressive sound, but not enough, for me, to justify the expense (~$4000 for the deck and $300/per release of TapeProject issue) and logisitical hassles of going to reel-to-reel playback. YMMV.

Long ago I had several reel to reel machines and even have several live tapings of FSU jazz band recordings. They are a pain in the ass, but are clearly the best sound. I refuse to listen to any tapes now.

Tbg,

good to see you at RMAF, sorry we did not have time for much discussion.

for a guy who pursues the ultimate music reproduction performance without compromise; you have twice in this thread mentioned that RTR is the best sound but also a pain-in-the-ass. did some RTR guy kick sand in your face as a kid, or something?

of course; you have also sworne off vinyl too as being too much trouble.....and accepted the 'dark side' as your exclusive music source.

i'm just 'outing' you as an analog crumodgeon so you don't scare others into thinking RTR is a pain; it's not. mounting a tape is easy and actually less stressfull than cueing an Lp in most ways.

we do agree about the performance; RTR is second to nothing regarding music reproduction.

Hello,
I myself, and many friends I have made on Audio Asylum, Audio Karma, Tapeheads.net etc....all have fully calibrated up to spec units, that we use regularly, and make tapes for oneanother and mail to eachother, to listen to eachothers tapes. I also buy prerecorded tapes from years ago, that sound fantastic. I dont buy the overpriced Tapetrail tapes, but instead make my own, from my very high end turntable, thus keeping all of my recordings fully analog, and they sound as good as the source. A great way to back up your existing vinyl collection, and get hours of listening time. I highly recommend. I also know several Tape Technicians that specialize in restoring Reel to Reels, and have lots of NOS parts for the units, like Tandberg, TEAC, Pioneer, Revox, etc....Ray