Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="iri10, post: 2492458, member: 1781"] And let's not forget that as good as some of those turntables are, the real celebrated analog technology among the audiophiles these days is reel-to-reel tape. Do you want this machine, an old TASCAM that's been extremely heavily modified with brand new heads and circuitry all around? [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/OawdDC3.jpg[/IMG] It will only set you back $21,000 or so. Want some albums for your $21k tape player, playing at 15 inches per second? (normal consumer tape players back in the day played at 7.5 or 3.75 inches per second) As it turns out, they have started making some albums in this format. They will only set you back four or five hundred dollars each. edit: This is a nice video on the subject, covering the history of reel-to-reel formats and the newer extremely expensive audiophile variant of it: [MEDIA=youtube]5KHSz9Gi-II[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]