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Chris Fountain
What ever happened to Reel to Reel? I thought was suppose to be the cleanest sound?
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dmay
Re what happened to R2R, I still have a R2R Sony machine and a few R2R tapes from back in the day. Great for making long playing mix tapes and doing various recording tricks with them. Alas, R2Rs are a vanishing breed and repairs, if needed, are basically unobtainable as there are few, if any, local radio-t/v-stereo repair shops anymore. The other factor is that R2R tape is now expensive and has to be sourced, at least in my experience. The sound quality produced by good (I'm talking about you TDK and BASF) recording tape was excellent, again, depending on one's recording skills, if you weren't using commercially made tapes of popular music.