listening to Electric Light Orchestra

now I know why is called 'Orchestra'

bring back analog music

If you can find a copy: Deep Purple at the Royal Alber Hall with the London Symphony Orchestra.

I have a Teac X2000R sitting here in my listening room. I bought it new back in the 80s while stationed at Yokota AB, Japan. I also have a lot of music recorded on Maxell XLIIs reels. I bought a new belt to get it up and running, but have yet to complete the project. While I was stationed at Yokota, the base library was divesting itself of a sizable reel to reel tape collection. I bought quite a few which I also have in the cabinet. Thanks for the reminder to get my ass in gear! Enjoy!

I am scouring the net looking for some good condition pre-recorded tapes

my tape deck is a TEAC 32B2 Tascam Series machine - standard 1/4" 15 ips playback

failing that I am thinking of getting some FLAC digital audio and dumping them to tape

haven't seen the Deep Purple program - will have to look it up

I always wanted a Revox reel to reel, now I don't know where I would find pre-recorded tapes.
My neighbor, who is 98, has a nice old school stereo in his basement. Among the pieces is a TEAC reel to reel and a set of Advent speakers.
He asked me last year if I was interested in the set-up, I will bring it up again the next time I see him.

Studer Revox made some nice gear but I haven't seen one in ages

I'd certainly ask if he still has the gear - he might even have a secret stash of tapes hidden away

Reel, cassette, CD, vinyl, FM, AM-Stereo...can handle it all.

I still have an old Sony, 7 1/2". Not the best, but average reel to reel trumps the other formats IMO. It hasn't worked in 15 years, and when I learned you cannot buy the belts any longer I was heartbroken. Hell, I sill have unused blank Maxell tapes I never filled.

Hey bald... I have that same Tandberg TD-20A.

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Originally posted by preten2b:
I still have an old Sony, 7 1/2". Not the best, but average reel to reel trumps the other formats IMO. It hasn't worked in 15 years, and when I learned you cannot buy the belts any longer I was heartbroken. Hell, I sill have unused blank Maxell tapes I never filled.

Try searching on the Antique Radio Forum, a lot of activity on that forum. Also, if the drive pulleys are "u" or "v" shaped you might try to find an o-ring and use that in place. I've done that with a couple of 1930's to 1940's Zenith radios.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
Studer Revox made some nice gear but I haven't seen one in ages

I'd certainly ask if he still has the gear - he might even have a secret stash of tapes hidden away

If he has any tapes they would be Polka music!

Before I got married I had a Thorens turntable, I believe a Shure stylus, a Teac reel to reel, McIntosh electronics, JBL L166 speakers. And a stack of original mastered LP's. I still have the McIntosh and the JBL's (the only input is a CD player). But I get to listen once in a while when the wife and neighbors are away.

I have an Akai GX-77 and a whole bunch of old Jazz reel to reels. I love the fact that you can listen for a couple hours before changing anything.

I want to get a reel-to-reel machine and listen to tapes. I used one when I was a kid, parents owned a German-made Grundig reel-to-reel machine. Where do I look for one outside eBay? And what brands and models should I be looking for?

I just added a pair of bookshelf ELACS to my McIntosh ML1 speakers. Play both sets at the same time sounds great. Only play on a Rotel CD player through the Mac1900 and MQ101. The bookshelfs bring out the higher frequencies what the Macs miss at lower levels. But turn then up, WOw!

Oh man, I had dozens of large tapes recorded from early CD releases circa 85 and so on. Made sure there were no clicks in between songs and recorded each album in chronological order but starting from the slowest rythm song to the fastest one, the next album fastest to slowest. Creating large rythm waves. Had pop, rock, jazz, jazz rock and classic (unsorted). Full artist discographies. Tons of ECM albums... Limited early editions from back when there were only two CD factories in the world trying to build full catalogs and keep up with current hits on a small scale production line.

Serviced my Akai not too long ago only to find that my 30 years old tape had gone to waste. Got rid of it all in frustration.

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Green with envy right here...

I just remembered that I have an Arcam DAC - I use it a lot with my headphones so I sort of forgot it was there as its always just plugged in the background

makes a big difference - can't remember the last time I listened to a straight CD

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Originally posted by sidss1:
I want to get a reel-to-reel machine and listen to tapes. I used one when I was a kid, parents owned a German-made Grundig reel-to-reel machine. Where do I look for one outside eBay? And what brands and models should I be looking for?

Try here; https://www.audiogon.com/

The Tape Project. It's a local vacuum tube manufacturer Doc B of Bottlehead

http://tapeproject.com

https://bottlehead.com