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hello
I have run across an estate sale of 40 Ernest Ansermet, 7.5" reel to reel
Classical tapes, produced by London "FFRF" all with leaders and reversing foil.
What would the value of these tapes be?
The seller is asking $1000.00, is this reasonable?
thanks for all input.
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these tapes are mass produced hugh speed transfers from copy masters. Garbage.
Below is a link to an eBay "Advanced" search that disregards "asking" prices and only reports actual sales. Prices seem to be all over the place, which is the norm, because there is a huge variance in the avidity of the purchasers...
In other words, someone who is obsessed with a particular Led Zeppelin album and who wants to buy it in every release format will bid a lot more than a casual hobbyist.
The other thing to keep in mind is the dreaded analog-tape "Sticky Shedding Syndrome."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky-shed_syndrome
Now, my guess is that the tapes you are thinking about buying were manufactured before the time tape manufacturers revised their binder formulations, to disastrous effect.
But you don't want to pay $1000 for a bunch of tapes you can play only once, let alone cleaning all that rusty dust off your nice tape machine.
You can do a deep dive on the Internet about sticky shed syndrome and perhaps finds some relevant info.
The seller is asking $25 per box with no quantity discount. My casual perusal of the eBay data in general suggests that $20 is a more market-correct price for a bulk lot like this, but, if the seller looks hard, he or she will be able to find quite a few Ansermet reel tape confirmed sales over $25. Such as the pictured reel at $32 +$4 p+p.
Best of luck.
FYI, I have examined and appraised around 10,000 LPs, mostly classical, and a few tapes as well. I also gave a presentation at a conference held at Yale about "Designing and Equipping Workspaces for the Digital Archiving of Legacy Audio Formats" such as 78 rpm discs and R2R tapes. That was my presentation's title; the conference as a whole was about contemporary issues in music librarianship.
jm
Honestly, I can say as the former owner of many, many Barclay-Crocker (and other) tapes that RTR in its day was the supreme format for consumers IMHO, but I just don't understand their mystique now. I hear them at shows - big whoop, compared to hi-rez.
Condition of early commercial tapes are highly variable. The asked price is reasonable but if you are not familiar with these commercial tapes, don't expect too high on them. Tapes went thought different owners and machines may came with variable problems. From my own experience.The manufacturing process and quality control at the time of these tapes were made are not as good as the LPs.
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