Can we finally put Reel to Reel out of its misery? Put it to rest people.

Revox is/has building/built a new R2R in 2017 and Ballfinger M063 is a new R2R tape recorder out and in shops. R2R are not on their way out but rather on their way back in!
http://www.ballfinger.de/tape-recorder-m-063
BTW I just got a beautiful Technics RS1500US, and see and heard a regain of interest for these old things. Tape is the new vinyl! Soon your cassettes will be back into game again. Perfectly happy going back and forth between analogue and digital.

I didn't know some were still using cassettes… Lol! I thought they were all gone to the junkyard, where they belong. Apparently not! :D

At some point there was quite a bunch of Hi fi VCRs able to record Audio very well. They were there originally to play Hi Fi stereo pre recorded movies and sure it was a great improvement over ordinary VHS. First tape I tested through my AKG headphones was Silverado that was just released! What an experience! Could hear all the details of a very serious sound production. Don’t remember the make of this VCR. Later I became involved in video editing and used maybe the best S-VHS ever, the Panasonic NV-FS 100S.

Last week end I offered a DAC to my Technics RS 1500 US R2R, and recorded on a brand new lpr35 some WAV and AAC out of my SSD laptop Hard drive. What an improvement! The playback is fantastic, even at 7.5. Tapes or LPs, I really enjoy listening to the music while watching these 10 inches reels or the vinyl spinning.