Is There Any Reason To Buy A Reel-To-Reel Machine Nowadays??


I bought my first reel-to-reel machine in 1977 as a convenience in order to record and play back multiple albums in high fidelity.without having to fool around with my manual turntable.  I was surprised to find out that I preferred the sound of the reel to the turntable.  Along came cd and I could play both sides of an album with the fuss of having to flip it over every 15 minutes.  Now with high a high quality DAC and a computer, you can have uninterrupted high fidelity music for days on end.

No one is making new recordings on reel-to-reel.  The cost of blank tape is exorbitant.  The cost of a good open-reel deck is stratospheric.  So pretty much you're left with recording an LP or a cd to your reel for playback.....what's that??

Please chime in for reasons to buy an open-reel deck today.
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I miss 2 of my R2R tapes, East West by Paul Butterfield Blues Band, prerecorded 3.75 ips.  The second was a recording I made while working in an audio store, a never released preview of Fever by Bruce Springsteen with the original E St Band.  It was in acapella, via FM radio.  A fellow employee borrowed and never returned it.  The store was Audio Lab on 20th Ave and Indian School Rd.  The radio station was KDKB  a Dwight Karma Broadcasting affiliate, downtown Phoenix.  Those were the days.