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[dminches]

Having a deck is a small part of this. Acquiring the software is the hard part.

 

[joey_v]

Having a deck is a small part of this. Acquiring the software is the hard part.

Yeah, we all gotta start somewhere.

 

[joey_v]

Amazing, congratulations! Jeff is a great guy and will be there when necessary, I’m sure. What colors did you select?

Also wanted to recall the TAS review of the Tourbillon, which was the best review I have ever read, of any audio component, in ~30 years of being in this hobby.

Very excited for sure. It's been about 4 months in the making for me.

 

[Zeotrope]

Having a deck is a small part of this. Acquiring the software is the hard part.

It’s not hard, it‘s expensive!

 

[joey_v]

It’s called a journey
Otherwise why even try

 

[dminches]

It’s not hard, it‘s expensive!

Well, it is both. There are TONS of albums not available commercially. There is a lot of great stuff out there but most albums aren’t.

 

[Foxbat]

It’s not hard, it‘s expensive!

Seriously? Not hard? Do you realize how many albums have been recorded in the world in the last 100 years? How many of them exist on tape?

.00000001%, or less? Of all 900 or so tapes available today I would really love to have maybe 5. Another 10-15 "just since available"... and that's about it.

I am talking about tapes with verifiable provenance, of course...

 

[Zeotrope]

Seriously? Not hard? Do you realize how many albums have been recorded in the world in the last 100 years? How many of them exist on tape?

.00000001%, or less? Of all 900 or so tapes available today I would really love to have maybe 5. Another 10-15 "just since available"... and that's about it.

I am talking about tapes with verifiable provenance, of course...

Spent a few minutes trying to decipher what you meant and what value it’s adding. Time I will never get back.

Thousands of albums are available on tape, with known provenance. Can you afford them at $400+ a pop? That’s why I wrote it’s expensive, but not difficult to build a collection on tape.

 

[dminches]

Victor’s point is that only a minute percent of albums are available on tape, especially if you like jazz and rock.

 

[Zeotrope]

Victor’s point is that only a minute percent of albums are available on tape, especially if you like jazz and rock.

Thanks, now I understand.

 

[Foxbat]

I am not sure where you can find thousands of tapes, all the lists I have seen put together had up to 900 titles. Granted, that was a few months back, so I suspect there are a few more, but "thousands"?

I don't count all those copies made from the production copies, that were sent around the world for local LP fabrication, as their generation is unknown.

The selection of great performances of classical music is particularly pitiful. There have been recently some interesting tapes made from the masters kept in the Melodia vault... I would love some, but I will not deal with the russians.