Tape Project-Any reason so many tapes are showing

Ironbut-I know what you mean. I come from the older school audiophile group. I do have vinyl open reel and cd/mp3 as all part of my two channel system.

The Tape project takes a more involved approch and a commitment with a deck that can play the tapes plus modding/maintaining the deck.

Between the deck the mods and the subscription you are forking out 5k just to get started plus another 2k a year or so for the subscription.

The good thing I'm seeing is that the tapes are holding a fairly good value for people looking to get out of the Tape Project.
I really didn't think people getting out of the Tape Project would be from a quality control factor.

Because the music content being released on these tapes is not appealing. Sound for sound sake does not make sense. This is especially true given the typical cost to find and upgrade a machine. A lot of great music was done in three channel and mixed down, so on that typle of music there is something to be looked for. A transfer of Miles/Blue in Blu-Ray is in progress. It will blow away the mix tape.

I have a few reel to reel's and have found some 7.5 tapes done for broadcast to be outstanding, inspite of the source being vinyl.

I thought people were getting out of it because Ronco has come out with a similar program for much less, using 8-track tapes.

A transfer of Miles/Blue in Blu-Ray is in progress. It will blow away the mix tape.

you are kidding, right?

there are many dozens of analog-digital threads (many of which i've been involved with) and the world does not need another one. OTOH when you are speaking of a digital copy of an analog tape being better than an Lp or master tape dub there is just no basis for that. Blue Ray of KOB might be pretty good, but no better (or maybe not as good) as the SACD of KOB.

i have a 15ips 1/4" master dub of KOB (not sure exactly how many generations removed from the master it might be). but it's better than the 45rpm reissue, which is way better than the SACD.

one must be drinking lots of PCM koolaid to assume the Blue Ray is going to be all that great.

i have a high rez server with 20+ high rez 176/24 and 192/24 files. i like them and they are a solid improvement over the redbook; but generally they don't measure up to SACD to my ears.

getting back to the question at hand; i agree that RTR in general, and the Tape Project Tapes in particular are not yet 'easy' and 'mainstream'. OTOH they do offer an audiophile fully licensed master dubs that will be the best sounding recordings they will ever hear. and to get more tapes (and more mainstream tapes) to the marketplace first intenders will have to support it. i like every one of the tapes so far once i listen to them. it's great music.

clearly it does not work in everyone's listening culture.

i think there are many more people getting into tapes than getting out of them. that is all that is needed.

Mikelavigne-I hope you are correct about more audiophiles joining the tape arena. I feel the Tape Project is a great idea but do wish there were more offerings n the Jazz and Blues categories. I would join in a heartbeat.

If anything TP should allow a potential subscriber to chose ten tapes from all of their offerings and not limit a subscriber to a set group of ten. Hopefully as they ad more titles maybe this will be an option

For now I've been lucky enough to buy four titles I was interested in from the first set and assume a partial subscription for another five tapes in the current set offering. So far I'm very happy with everything.

Ed