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    New Master Tape Company with 30 live recordings WOW

    This is a real find that seems to be hidden. It is Tape Music from Bottrop Germany. Multiple classes. Take a listen to this one. Very live with no changes made to the sound. https://www.tapemusic.eu/master-tapes/vermischtes/ Next is the Jazz and Swing Page. All of the cuts sound wow. 6 Tapes...
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    Tape Deck Owners: What % of your time do you listen to TAPE, DIGITAL or VINYL?

    I think this would be interesting to all of us.
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    Straight2Tape live sessions Reel To Reel samples.

    Straight2Tape live sessions now has samples and they are good to say the least. I just clicked on each of the tapes and YouTube came up with each. https://www.2inch-records.ch/store/#!/Master-Tape/c/51286242
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    New Updates On The New Metaxas Reel To Reel Location Tape Deck.

    https://www.facebook.com/kostas.metaxas.37?__tn__=%2CdC-R-R&eid=ARBF93Upra2wMx1Kzu1-iAM-3kt4N0V-Bb-ehm_jHD2GYFnt_wvIIFn4MP0dF9BtWVp5_iS93J2yGwYs&hc_ref=ARSNpJFOUacm0QTf1xmZgXnmbJdmvOdmt9nfKpK9ekEH1AObOMtDGdJQ5joj3aZHoXY&fref=nf Then click the See More Button.
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    How efficient is a folded horn cabinet after you put two 100 db sensitivity sub woofers in it?

    Sounds like a simple question. You have 2 woofers with a sensitivity of 100db each and you put both of them in folded horn enclosure, so what is the actual rated sensitivity output then? How many DB does the folded horn enclosure add and how many more db sensitivity do you add using a second sub...
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    The Telegraph Article on Return To Reel To Reel. Lady Gaga Doing Some New songs on Reel To Reel.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/04/return-reel-to-reel-musicians-reject-digital-better-sound-dated/amp/
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    Crazy Looking Metals & Sins Tape Deck. Is it real or a Just A Study In Design?

    http://audiofi.net/2018/05/metaxas-sin-to-launch-gqt-open-reel-analogue-tape-deck/ http://www.metaxas.com/HIFI_2015.pdf
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    First Review Of The Ballinger Tape Deck

    https://stereo-magazine.com
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    New Review Of The Living Voice Palladian Speaker

    http://www.monoandstereo.com/2018/03/the-living-voice-vox-palladian-speakers.html http://www.monoandstereo.com/2018/02/living-voice-vox-palladian-horn.html
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    Ed Pong sent me more recordings to listen to and still up at 3:30 in the morning listening.

    Ed was kind enough to send me 4 CD's of his recordings and I will cover them in two groups. Group 1 is Tatsuki Narita Paganini Live playing Caprice 24 and Caprice 24 in the studio. Both of these recordings are violin only with no piano. Can we talk about the missing sound of the recording chain...
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    Western Electric WE 300b Tube Going Into Production.

    http://www.monoandstereo.com/2018/01/western-electric-we-300b-electron-tube.html http://www.westernelectric.com
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    Elusive Disk now has 82 tapes for sale.

    I remember when they had six tapes. **http://audiophile.elusivedisc.com/search?p=Q&srid=S12-USCDR01&lbc=elusivedisc&ts=custom&w=Reel%20To%20Reel&uid=511723678&method=and&isort=price%20rev&view=list&sli_jump=1&srt=0
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    What is the "Go To" amplifiers used with Wilsons? AudioReserch or what others are favorites? ?

    I often see Audio Research amplifiers with Wilsons and just the other day listened to ALEX with the Audio Research 750 SE and it was smooth and easy to listen to. On the larger XLF and ALEXX what seems to be best or most popular with owners? The Nagra sounded great with the ALEXX in Munich.
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    The Sound of the new February 11 2017 UltraAnalogue Narita & Yun-Yang-Lee Recordings

    Dr. Pong again was kind enough to send me some new cuts since the update to the recording chain. He has made some tweaks along with now using two of the famous WE300b Tube. How would I classify the new sound? Remember years ago when you went to the movies and waited to see the special effects...
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    Another UltraAnalogue outstanding performance by Tatsuki Narita captured on tape.

    Here is the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE7UCBf_9v4
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    Brand NEW Reel To Reel Machine from Ballinger in Germany

    http://www.monoandstereo.com/2017/02/ballfinger-m-063-real-to-real-tape.html
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    Master Recordings — From Abbey Road to Born to Run — Could Be Lost Forever, Without A

    http://www.laweekly.com/music/master-recordings-from-abbey-road-to-born-to-run-could-be-lost-forever-without-archivists-help-7575450
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    Spending some time last week with more UltraAnalogue Recordings. What a week.

    Ed Pong noticed some of the posted I had done on his sample recordings and I got a message from him for my address. Suddenly a few days later some more sample of his recorded music showed up at my door. Again I have to say we, as audiophiles we are lucky that in this place in this time right now...
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    Just Updates UltraAnalogue Sample have reached Nirvana

    I think most of us in the forum have been following UltraAnalogue for a while along with the changes they have made to his recording chain. Just the other day I noticed they posted some new music samples from the latest tapes. It is now clear they have achieved a level that any other company...
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    As of October 13 2016 there are 458 master tape titles available at 15ips.

    Tonight I totaled up all of the 23 companies doing master tapes and how many different titles are available. No question sales have gone up along with varity.
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    Is the Los Angeles Audio Show taking the place of the Newport show?

    Is this a consolidation?
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    New little brother to the Living Voice Vox Olympians

    http://www.theaudiobeat.com/blog/living_voice_palladian.htm
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    Reel-to-reel tape is the new vinyl The Verge

    http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/5/9409563/reel-to-reel-tape-retro-audio-trend An old story.
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    Analogue Crack! The Rise and Rise of the Reel to Reel Format.

    http://hifipig.com/analogue-crack-the-rise-and-rise-of-the-reel-to-reel-format/
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    Acoustic Sounds reel-to-reel tapes are coming

    The tape renaissance is real and revolutionary. Tape, of course, is not an unfamiliar topic for Acoustic Sounds, as more than 95 percent of the Analogue Productions reissues are sourced from the original analog masters. What's more, Chad Kassem's recording studio/concert hall, Blue Heaven...
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    Salon Son & Image / Montreal Audio Show Cancelled

    From today's press release: It is with considerable sadness that we have to inform you that it has been decided to defer this year’s Salon Son & Image Show/Montreal Audio Show due to take place at the Bonaventure Hotel on the 18 – 20 March 2016. The deciding factor has been market support...
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    Horch House PROJECT R2R consumer tape machine

    http://www.monoandstereo.com/2016/01/horch-house-project-r2r-consumer-tape.html WORLD EXCLUSIVE: HORCH HOUSE INITIATE “PROJECT R2R” Could this be the most surprising development in hi-fi since Neil Young’s Pono Player? Except with one small difference: we’re talking analogue. Very analogue...
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    J-Corder Review in Wired Magazine. Very Complete Review of Tape.

    http://www.wired.com/2015/11/review-j-corder/
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    Story On Resurgance Of Tape And Opus 3

    http://www.theaudiophileman.com/#!opus-reel-to-reel/ctqt

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