11/27/2023 0 Comments Reel to reel playerhas every friggin rubber drive belt you could think of, they also sell a measurement device to do it eaiser. Replaced it with a Philips Reel-Reel which I still have, last time i used it it worked fine, just replaced some old rubber belts etc. I had one of them old "crossfield" head units way way way back. I see Akai "profecssional" now advertised, they gave up on teh consumer market. There is enough material in them older machines to build hundreds of iPODS. Sand it down real smooth and leave it alone.Ĭool, sounds like a real deal. Black walnut is so cool that you don't need to put a finish on it. The old lumber yard here as some black walnut that is older than my grandmother just waiting up in the rafters for me to go and fetch. I think some solid black walnut custom sides will look awesome. My cousin owns and operates a cabinet shop. It weighs a ton and plays just fine even with the f*cked up shipping idiot. I mean this unit still has the warning stickers on the sides and top. Anyway, I got some new sides for it to replace the ones that were damaged. I gave the f*ck a negative rating and sent him an email and told him to stick to selling toys and Coleman lamps because this one was way out of his league. Except for the corners on the side that got damaged in the shipping. Like it has been in storage for 30 years. He packed it in a Frito Lay box with bullshit for packing material and sent it USPS like it was a box of dried fruit or something. The idiot I bought this from didn't understand what he sold. Yes, but these are exceptional items and may be considered "landmarks" in the audio world that all of us would like to have, in our audiophile collection. On the other hand in recent times we've seen fascinating Fisher, Bozak and Quad reviews. Cassette decks were on their way out, buy this time. But with the advent of CDs.well, buy this point in time how many folks had open reel devices. To me, the open reel was just a play toy. Even if one had all the proper electronics getting a good copy from vinyl was not possible. And the truth is, other than playback of professionaly recorded tapes what good were these pying vinyl to tape never resulted in the best of sound. Most likely because so few people owned r-r decks, for a variety of reasons. Perhaps it was because the availability of new music on open reel dried up long ago, and the players somewhat laterĮven at its' peak the sale of reel-to-reel never can near that of vinyl. After all, weren't the master recordings done on magnetic tape? (Granted it wasn't 1/4" tape.) Over the years I'd often heard that open reel, even with its faults, was the finest format available to consumers for pre-recorded playback, maybe it's time for one of the columnists to scrape together say, $500 or so from the editorial budget and snag a player and some vintage tapes from eBay and compare them to vinyl copies? ( I promise not to then ask for an Elcaset comparo. Perhaps it was because the availability of new music on open reel dried up long ago, and the players somewhat later - but it always surprised me to not see this topic broached by the Stereophile staff, given the potential ramifications, if only for a small subset of available music. Over the years I'd often heard that open reel, even with its faults, was the finest format available to consumers for pre-recorded playback, even though most of it was naturally done on high-speed duplication machines and for 3 3/4ips playback. How true.just make sure the heads are clean and de-maged. More signal, no noise, no pop, no scratch reel-reel always sounded better than LP of the same stuff.
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