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(A caveat though, cassette decks are designed and produced to ONLY run at 1-7/8 ips which can increase their stability at that speed.) Running that slow will generate more noise (tape hiss) and decrease the frequency response of the recording, however (vs. Even running at a slow speed like 1-7/8 ips doesn’t strike me as problematic heck, the old analog cassette format ran at 1-7/8 ips and didn’t have a huge issue.

Panasonic 740 reel to reel tapedeck pro#

In my experience though, coming at it from a pro angle–assuming you use good tape, keep the heads and tape path clean, etc.–you shouldn’t automatically get drop-outs. Len, in theory, drop-outs can increase running at slower speeds. (Similarly, I had my hands on a manual-thread 16mm film projector a few times as a kid, and that was WAAAY more fun than dropping in a DVD today!) Popping in a cassette never gave me that satisfaction. I grew up in the 1970s and ’80s with various reel-to-reels I acquired used (see, and I really enjoyed loading and threading reels of tape. So R to R recorders last much longer, and anyone with a collection of R to R tapes naturally wants to keep the playback hardware.īut I really, really relate to the tactile fascination at an emotional level! That holds true for me. Also R to R machines were built for durability cassette decks tended to aim for budget-conscious markets and thus were more likely to be built on the cheap. So even though cassette eventually overtook R to R as a consumer format (thanks to convenience, Dolby and chrome/metal tape formulations), a much, much larger legacy of R to R tape recordings existed, because of R to R’s superiority over cassette for serious recording, and because R to R has been around much longer. R-to-R was already far superior to cassette in performance cassette was invented mainly for speech use. But more significant is the legacy factor: Modern reel-to-reel recording (with AC bias) dates back to WWII cassettes were invented in 1964. I think, for starters, all your theories are valid somehow or another. Nice blog! I can offer several answers to your question about why reel-to-reel machines are passed along more than cassettes. If you are interested in our nationwide reel-to-reel format conversion services in Colorado Springs and Denver, please see our website for more info. We’d love to see it and hear how you came into possession of it.

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If you have an old reel-to-reel tape machine, feel free to post a picture of it to our Facebook Wall. Why are these passed down from generation to generation, and say, cassette decks are not? Is it purely looks, frequency response or some tactile fascination? I hope you will help us answer this question in our comments below. Here’s a picture of one of our own: a Teac X-3R. This is a classic ad because, indeed, I think many people have done just that not just with the TC-377, but with all different types of analog reel-to-reel tape recorders.Ī customer recently sent us this picture of her Sony TC-558. ( Editor: we are sorry, this link no longer works.) Some of the text reads: This could be the tape deck you’ll leave your great-grandson. I recently came across this SynthGear blog post that contains an old advertisement for a Sony TC-377: 1973 Ad for Sony Reel-to-Reel Tape Deck. We love analog reel-to-reel tape recorders and use them regularly to convert old reel-to-reels to audio CD.