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In Reply to: RE: Winning bids are averaging around $400 each posted by Inmate51 on August 12, 2014 at 07:08:04
It's hard to know where to start, but I do love the idea that I have an "emotional connection" with someone from whom I've bought maybe half a dozen tapes over 10 years or so. As to your "facts," well, I guess your smiley is supposed to cover things like that.
But, wow, a mono KOB "vinyl," as the kids say.
How about listing your system so we can get a fix on how serious you are about reel-to-reel tape? This is "Tape Trail," after all.
Follow Ups:
"Reel-lady" (Deborah Gunn) ... (I've bought from her often)"
"someone from whom I've bought maybe half a dozen tapes over 10 years or so"
Whichever.
Yeah, I started wondering about the last time I had actually bought a tape from reel-lady. Could I be thinking of her sister, who operates as o-Jayne (or something like that)? Yeah, the last couple or three came from her sister. They're equally responsible and credible tape sellers, but I DID buy from reel-lady back in the day. Just can't remember when was the last time, and precisely how often. Could have been six. Could have been ten.
In any event, I wager that I bought more from the two of them than you have in your entire open reel tape collection. But I could be wrong.
Sue me.
The last time I bought tape was when I bought a 12-reel box of Quantegy 499.
Still have three of them unused.
:)
Hey Dave, here's a little info on my stuff: Revox A77 MK IV high speed 2 track, Schoeps dual-pattern condensers, Valley People mic preamps, AKG K240 headphones, Atlas MS-25 mic stands, Belden 8412 cable. I'd usually use Maxell UD, TDK LX, or Agfa PEM 469. I also have a variety of concert recordings that I made on Ampex 407 and 456 - hence the tape baking oven.
In the past, I've worked with the Stellavox Sp7 and the Studer A80 (both awesome machines!), but both were too rich for me to buy personally! Maybe now in the used marketplace...
You?
:)
Though it might better have been posted to one of my posts than one of yours. But as you say, whichever :-)
I've had many decks since the late 1950s, starting with a Revere something-or-other. Multiple Magnecords and Teacs, single Viking and Revox. No live site recordings but many hundreds of commercial, off-air, dubs, reissue and new original tapes, all quarter-inch. I probably listen at least 30-40% of the time to tapes.
Main current deck is a tricked-out Otari MX5050 BII-2, 3 speeds, 2- and 4-track, modded with direct tapehead output to deHavilland 222 tapehead preamp (superb sounding, five tubes, IEC and NAB EQ, much recommended). I also installed a Bottlehead tape path mod kit (roller bearings sted of fixed tape guides) which improved sonics and totally eliminated squeal from a few noisy tapes.
I use a lot of Maxell UD and XLI. For new stuff prefer various ATR and Emtec (I guess that's about all the "new" stock there is these days, sad to say).
"See? That wasn't so hard."
LOL
I KNEW you were going to say that!
Generally, I don't like to post info about my stuff, and rarely read inmate's system info. It tends to put people in a box/category. I prefer to read what they have to say, and decide if it makes any sense.
www.youramerica.net
:)
I didn't really know where to add this but,..
This thread is exactly what happens when these eBay safety master type tapes are discussed.
In this particular thread there are many of the reel to reel faithful and I think each of us know a number of others who don't participate in this forum.
So, how is it, that not one of us knows someone who has even heard one of these tapes?
Now I do understand that there are a few well healed tape lovers out there who have been buying entire collections of safety/production masters when they're come up for sale from either the engineers, studio owners etc. usually when the facilities have closed, moved or just plain needed the space (I have a 1/2" jazz safety that was dumped because it was redundant and the bean counters wanted that 1/2").
That's a whole different thing IMHO.
And maybe a couple want to preserve their "happy hunting grounds" and I truly sympathize with that.
But when not one person wants to brag about the sound of these tapes to any of us, I assume that they aren't worth the money.
It's not like AA's Tape Trail is read religiously by, say 50 people.
And it's not like these, say 50 people, are sufficiently well-heeled to consider popping $400 each for a tape of admittedly questionable provenance.
Maybe I should have been a little more detailed in my last post.
As far as I know, this is the first time this subject has been addressed on the Tape Trail but it has be discussed a few times over on the Tape Project Forum (I'm the moderator there).
And while it's sad to say that both this and the Tape Project's attendance has been lacking the past year or so, we still get quite a few "views" on the subject of any potential source of great sounding tapes.
This is usually well over 1000.
So, what I should have made clear was that these are just WAG's but this thread is not what I'm basing them on but rather just adds fuel to that particular fire.
"How about listing your system so we can get a fix on how serious you are about reel-to-reel tape?"
I don't have a profile or system list for a reason.
The reason is, it doesn't matter.
What matters is the veracity of my comments.
WRT reel-to-reel, I'll just say that I have a purpose-built "oven" for "baking" tapes.
:)
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