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  1. DexterMiller

    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 ).
  2. DexterMiller

    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...
  3. DexterMiller

    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)
  4. DexterMiller

    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).
  5. DexterMiller

    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...
  6. DexterMiller

    What are you currently listening to (Classical)?

  7. DexterMiller

    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).
  8. DexterMiller

    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...
  9. DexterMiller

    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...
  10. DexterMiller

    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...
  11. DexterMiller

    The vintage pre-recorded reel to reel tape thread

    Some other stuff I enjoy;):
  12. DexterMiller

    The vintage pre-recorded reel to reel tape thread

    (Sadly), my only other two-tracker (dating from 1957):
  13. DexterMiller

    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.
  14. DexterMiller

    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...
  15. DexterMiller

    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...
  16. DexterMiller

    Guess Who and What Year

    It's from 1979 (Paul's SECOND "one-man-band" effort). I mean, other than the very obvious fact(s), that: it took as late as 1969 for the three (major) studios in London to just update to 8-track and how Paul would've been sporting a beard for most of that timeframe (except from during the time...
  17. DexterMiller

    Ampex 354

    The 354's electronics were the same as those squeezed into the one-motor, budgetary Ampex PR-10 from 1962 (a deck with a notorious failure-prone reputation: from -mainly- having a convoluted braking system with drive belts arranged in a Rube Goldberg-type way). However, for an "entry point"...
  18. DexterMiller

    A new tape deck

    Funny(?)...how it looks simply like a mock-up of Stellavox bearings and a Revox B77 headblock cobbled onto an old Thorens turntable plinth.
  19. DexterMiller

    Can solid state tape electronics equal their tube equivalents ?

    The resultant tube microphony problems from the amount of gain a (reproducer) tape head needs almost outweighs the notion of thinking different preamplification tech -on such a small scale voltage level- is going to change the line signal markedly (vs. talking a power amp). So many of those...
  20. DexterMiller

    Happy 40th Birthday to the compact disc

    The 74min. average max. playing time was suggested at the behest of (the late) conductor Herbert Von Karajan; saying it should be able to contain Beethoven's 9th on one disc.
  21. DexterMiller

    Happy 40th Birthday to the compact disc

    It will be 100 in 2048.
  22. DexterMiller

    Do you guys trust your first impressions when listening to a system or a component? How long does it take you to evaluate?

    Well, then, it may have an influence upon a twenty-or-so pound cassette deck; but I wouldn't suspect it would cater much to the performance of a sixty pound reel to reel.
  23. DexterMiller

    Do you guys trust your first impressions when listening to a system or a component? How long does it take you to evaluate?

    If there was a flutter problem with the deck's transport vibrating and/or the speed seeming unstable, it would still be a maintenance issue inside the deck itself and not something an outside accessory would change the effect of.
  24. DexterMiller

    60th Anniversary of Miles Davis' album 'Kind of Blue'

    Since this forum is receptive to keeping reel to reel as a viable (analog) format...FWIW: K.O.B., also, happens to be (currently) the most expensively valued, factory-produced, domestic reel to reel title EVER issued. The edited two-track version issued between 1959-1960 goes for $600+ and, the...
  25. DexterMiller

    Anyone know of a DIY R2R Tape Recorder or Turntable?

    Last time a kit r2r existed, was: when Allied Radio sold "knocked down" versions of Viking-brand machines in the mid-to-late '60s.
  26. DexterMiller

    Vinyl obsession

    Vinyl couldn't even contain everything on a master tape...so(?) how can it be remotely "superior"? It was never engineered to be a recording device, just the least expensive mass-market medium to sell music on for 40 years. It's such a snake-oil, B.S. argument to suggest vinyl sounds "better"...
  27. DexterMiller

    Developer of LP Dies

    This was a different "H.H. Scott" than Herman Hosmer Scott (the tube hi-fi pioneer that passed away in 1975).
  28. DexterMiller

    How did you fall in love with Classical Music?

    When (as a 5 year-old) I'd seen a syndicated repeat of an old Get Smart episode, which had to do with: Max getting taken hostage by a rogue spy masquerading as an orchestral conductor...whom, tries to kill him (and guest star Don Rickles' character) by rigging up a GIANT CANNON to go off when a...
  29. DexterMiller

    Famous Soundtracks

    Ones I've heard/collected: Ben-Hur 1959 MGM Lawrence of Arabia 1962 Colpix 2001 1968 MGM You Only Live Twice 1967 United Artists The Cardinal 1963 RCA Shoes of the Fisherman 1968 MGM Spartacus 1960 Decca Around the World in 80 Days 1957 Decca Petulia 1968 Warner Bros. Chariots of the...
  30. DexterMiller

    Question about CD4/QUAD pressed vinyl

    The "Compatible Discrete/CD-4" process was invented by JVC in 1969 and was an attempt to encode records with a comparable amount of four channel stereo separation only reel to reel tape was capable of (at the time) in its full glory. "Quadradiscs", as they were called (JVC having patented the...

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