Thanks DaveOriginally Posted by Thing Fish
Very nice Alan. Nice looking setup and a lovely looking room...
I have always fancied a reel to reel to compliment my setup.
Yes Reel 2 Reel can be excellent with the right machine and good tape its analogue and very natural, it does have a bit of a bass lift but that’s always welcome
My Tascam BR 20 sounds excellent with Maxell UDXL tape. Tape is expensive now and I have thrown out a few reels with sticky shed (beware of old Ampex / Quantegy).
The Teac 3440 is very good and would suit a musician as you can tape on all 4 tracks individually, overdub and simul sync. I have only used it for 2 track play back.
I also have a Revox PR99 mk1 in sick bay and I will have to make time to repairing one day?, it will be interesting to compare it to the Tascam?
I also have an AKAI ?25 in a box in the loft somewhere which sounded very good and the glass heads dont wear out.
The Tascam cassette deck is also faulty as the speed is fast so its in bits in my work shop and it need the motor speed controller recapping as that is supposed to fix this fault, again its finding the time.
Last year I spotted a mint Nak BX150E in a second hand shop for £39 so I use that for now and its good but just not in the same league as Reel to Reel
Alan
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