"The Bean Machine" wrote in message
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"Mike O'sullivan" wrote in message
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I still have much fun playing with my open-reel Teac A-2300SD. I bought
this
second-hand in 1987 and it still sounds superb at 7.5 ips.


As matter of interest Mike, are parts still freely available for machines
such as Teac and Revox?

Here's a good UK site for spares and service.
http://www.taperecorder.co.uk/

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:34:17 +0000, Ian Bell
wrote:

The Bean Machine wrote:

I picked up some TDK SA90 tape from Richer Sounds for a bargain 59p
each, I then rigged up my Pioneer CT-S740S tape deck, which I bought
about five years ago and have never used.

Sheer bliss, just messing about using all the bells and whistles (more
than you can shake a stick at on this deck,) it just reminded me of 20
years ago, when virtually when everything was recorded onto compact
cassettes.

As for the sound quality of the deck, I was knocked out by how much tape
technology has moved on since the seventies. OK the Pioneer is no
Nakamichi, however, for the IIRC, £230 I paid for it in a half price
sale, it has paid me back fully in one evening...simply wonderful...

Will tape ever die?

Lets hope not!

Cheers all
tox

You should try *real* tape recording on a reel to reel recorder.

Ideally, a Nagra-D.................. :-)

I quite like my Studer B67s.

Ian

In article ,
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
You should try *real* tape recording on a reel to reel recorder.

Ideally, a Nagra-D.................. :-)

Heh heh - the 'T' was much more fun. Although one of my favourites is the
Studer A812 centre track with synchronizer, autolocator and Dolby A/SR.

'Classic' 1/4" of all time? Gotta be the EMI BTR2. Second, Studer A80.
Best attempt - Levers-Rich Proline (Clark-Techniques clone).

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RIP Acorn

In article , Dave Plowman
writes
In article ,
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
You should try *real* tape recording on a reel to reel recorder.

Ideally, a Nagra-D.................. :-)

Heh heh - the 'T' was much more fun. Although one of my favourites is the
Studer A812 centre track with synchronizer, autolocator and Dolby A/SR.

'Classic' 1/4" of all time? Gotta be the EMI BTR2.

Oh Yes! That really was a tape machine. Anyone got any working examples
left?.....

Second, Studer A80.
Best attempt - Levers-Rich Proline (Clark-Techniques clone).


--
Tony Sayer

In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
'Classic' 1/4" of all time? Gotta be the EMI BTR2.

Oh Yes! That really was a tape machine. Anyone got any working examples
left?.....

I'll bet the BEEB have still got a few in use somewhere. Although they did
turn many of them into 'GT' versions with new transistor electronics. So
how many original valve ones are still around, I dunno. They're a fair old
lump to store if not actually in near daily use.

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*Always drink upstream from the herd *

Dave Plowman London SW 12
RIP Acorn

In article ,
says...
I picked up some TDK SA90 tape from Richer Sounds for a bargain 59p each, I
then rigged up my Pioneer CT-S740S tape deck, which I bought about five
years ago and have never used.

For some reason, most of my favorite music seems to be on cassette and
is inaccesable to me at the moment as I don't have a working tape
player. It's on my list of things to get. I'm suprised that the compact
cassette format hasn't experienced a nostalgic revival yet, but I'm sure
it will if we give it time...

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"killermike" wrote
For some reason, most of my favorite music seems to be on cassette and
is inaccesable to me at the moment as I don't have a working tape
player. It's on my list of things to get. I'm suprised that the compact
cassette format hasn't experienced a nostalgic revival yet, but I'm sure
it will if we give it time...

Maybe that's because (apart from at the very hig end) they were execrable
little serial-access plasticky things with no treble.


Martin
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Manchester, U.K. http://www.fleetie.demon.co.uk

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:46:47 -0000, "Fleetie"
wrote:

Maybe that's because (apart from at the very hig end) they were execrable
little serial-access plasticky things with no treble.

Oh, I don't know. Mine hissed nicely up to - ooh - must have been
almost 8kHz :-)

In article ,
Fleetie wrote:
I'm suprised that the compact cassette format hasn't experienced a
nostalgic revival yet, but I'm sure it will if we give it time...

Maybe that's because (apart from at the very hig end) they were execrable
little serial-access plasticky things with no treble.

Absolutely, they should have stuck to what they were designed for -
dictation.

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Dave Plowman London SW 12
RIP Acorn

"Dave Plowman" wrote in message
...

Absolutely, they should have stuck to what they were designed for -
dictation.

I often wonder how much the likes of TDK, BASF etc, must have spent on
developing what was a very difficult format to start with. On the whole,
sound quality from the later compact cassettes and high end cassette decks
was and still is nothing short of miraculous, IMHO.

Regards
tox