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In Reply to: RE: Why to we still care about (and listen to) RTR posted by TGR on January 12, 2009 at 11:00:12
For some of us, it's purely sentimental. As a young college student interested in audio, I barely had enough spare gas money to go to audio shows. In all the best booths, were R2R's playing music on the best of equipment. I coveted the idea of owning one and read everything I could about them. Every time I saw one in a movie, I twinged with jealousy.There's just something about the labor involved in the care & feeding of one, along with the wonderful recording results. It's not about analog versus digital. It's more along the lines of challenge; feeling that you're actually doing something to create music and reproduce good sound. I figured that so many experts had raved about them for so long (and all the master tapes for music were engineered on them for over 40yrs), that there had to be something to it. They were right.......digital didn't destroy analog, it just made it cooler.
Kevin
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