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| 14th Jan 2018, 9:41 PM | #1 REPORT | |
 | Juke Jules SUBS Tell me he's lazy, tell me he's slow Member since Jan 2011 4124 Points Moderator | I was happily listening to some anthems on YT when the 'next' video came up as "The most expensive music format (in the world)", only posted last month, in which Techmoan reviews the possibility of a Tape format revival. Why does YT presume to know what I might like? - anyway I was interested. He makes several points of interest to us here, such as the progressive reduction in achievable quality from the 50s to the 80s, the high cost of media and players, and the silly-money prices for the new generation of high-end tapes and refurbished players. He shows a few tapes which we will surely have some of here, and plays an early demo tape which sadly we don't have. Other topics covered include equalisation standards, Analog Records products, and the abandoned Revox new player project. |
| 15th Jan 2018, 9:30 AM | #2 REPORT | |
 | Magic Marmalade If you're not lost... It's not an adventure! Member since Jun 2014 3715 Points Moderator | Excellent article. All seems a bit like hard work though doesn't it? (Not to mention the hard work you'll have to do to be able to buy them!) In my classical travels, these sometimes pop up among the vinyl listings on ebay when you search by cat# or artist / title... and always at a high price. Have never come across them in a charity shop, but every other boot-fair I come across one stall that will have a couple... but if the tape is not melted / warped or tangled and mashed, then people often ended up using the boxes to store tins of wax or grease in the garage.... found a Beatles one once, which made me all excited, then I opened the box and found a reel of a kind of electrical adhesive tape in it. On a related note though, I have noticed within the last couple of months that there's a bit of a lift in standard cassette tapes values... even the old Deutsche Grammophon classical ones, and obviously the nostalgic Walkman culture has boosted old eighties pop cassettes. |
| 21st Jan 2018, 11:46 PM | #3 REPORT | |
 | Whyperion SUBS Too Many Records , Too Little Time Member since Jan 2013 306 Points | Beatles pre-recorded tapes always seem to have had a premium still payable even if I guess collectors dont play them. Yes tape recorders might be expensive to properly get working, but if you can pick up a BSR Elizabethan ( max spool 7in Quarter in Tape and normally only mono 2 track ), they can be boxed up and the output from the playback head if you only want playback can be put into a simple pre-amp and thence to your MP3 recorder or computer sound card, so can be more simple that the combined recorder/player and amplifier set ups. |
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