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    Universal, Sony and Warner Analog Tape Transfer Quality

    Well, the old tube Ampex 351 Bob Ludwig used to man for Abkco in the early 2000s remastered the Stones' early stuff pretty darn good (better than any way the same material had been reissued in the U.S. for the previous 20 years before sounded ).
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    Whats the best audio forum?

    Well, as long as they're not total HOAXES like the one the ubiquitously "banned" character on all these forums is behind [and is running]!;) "He" is a troll bot created by Harman International and does not even exist in real life (the online profile pics of his are all *entirely* photoshopped...
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    Who Is Your Favorite Orchestral Conductor

    Eugene Ormandy: (Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Brahms, Saint-Saens) Karl Bohm: (Johann Strauss and Richard Strauss) Bernstein: (Stravinsky, Gershwin, Rachmaninoff, Mahler) George Szell and William Steinberg: (Beethoven) Malcolm Sargent: (Gilbert & Sullivan) Pierre Boulez: (Berlioz)
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    Tandberg 3000X vu meters

    The ones on a 3000X I once had didn't either...only in record mode the meters lit and registered. However, on the 3600X I (later) used: the meters functioned "normal" (indicating playback and record level).
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    What is new in my music library? (recent purchases I enjoy)

    The 2014 cd now, for some reason(?), has garnered a (ridiculous) "collector value" upon it (while not even having authentically-sourced mixes)...but: the 1970 Beatles' compilation "HEY JUDE" sounds *very* good on vintage 7 1/2ips reel to reel (which, I'd bet: could make a better cdr copy than...
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    What are you currently listening to (Classical)?

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    biggest disaster in the history of the music business

    Better start collecting pre-recorded reel to reel from the '60s and '70s, then (as: that now, theoretically, would be the closest duplicate source of -once- ABC/DUNHILL/ODE/IMPULSE/DECCA/MCA/[non Herb Alpert catalog]A&M/[non Beatles]CAPITOL/et al. vintage master recordings).
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    Low cost Natural sound systems from YouTube

    The absolute, beginner way -I think- to decent sound would include going vintage and...to get: an early '70s, 30wpc Marantz 1060 integrated; slightly older Acoustic Research A.R. "2ax" speakers; a Teac A-2300S reel to reel; and, a Pioneer PL-112D TT (imo: the rock-bottom way with the only...
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    What is Hi Fi sound?

    It was a term originally coined in the late 1940s: to distinguish what dedicated separate audio components (then-in-their-infancy) promised in sound performance vs. what big-box AM console radios and 78rpm discs -up to that point in time- were only capable of (a frequency response limited to the...
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    First-ever reel to reel sold in America: 1946.

    More than a full year before Ampex would deliver three Model 200 broadcast recorders (bought and paid for $50,000 by Bing Crosby himself) to the ABC Radio Network, a little government contractor in Cleveland, Ohio named Brush Industries (which had been making wire-spool data recorders for the...
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    The vintage pre-recorded reel to reel tape thread

    Some other stuff I enjoy;):
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    The vintage pre-recorded reel to reel tape thread

    (Sadly), my only other two-tracker (dating from 1957):
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    The vintage pre-recorded reel to reel tape thread

    My main (downstairs) system deck in action: 1965 Magnecord 1024, 2tr. record/play 4-track play. Each section has independent power supplies and I've thoroughly refurbished this machine.
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    The vintage pre-recorded reel to reel tape thread

    A lot of people whom, I suppose, didn't have the "luxury" of having grown up with reel to reel (because of: either being the wrong age or...because their present access to it is limited by the -now- insane "collector" pricing market Ebay created) tend to disregard the 8,000-or-so consumer reel...
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    Ballfinger M063 both 1/4 track and 1/2 Track playback

    A lot of the theories regarding the finer points of tape transport were worked-out, surprisingly, as far back as the early 1960s; by an (American) company which was Ampex's main competitor in the semi-pro recorder market: Magnecord. The practice of using PARABOLIC-shaped heads (instead of...
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