Hard to say, but I wouldn't hold out much hope for old prerecorded tape. When my reel deck was working ~ 9 years ago, all the old prerecorded tapes I had were mediocre sounding, at best, if not just bad. Whereas I also had a collection of needle-drops some guy did onto Maxell UD 35-90 tape (really good tape), and those were absolutely wonderful sounding.
The new prerecorded reel tapes being produced today are on a completely different stratosphere of quality and price ($300-400+ a pop). I recently heard a demonstration by Doshi audio, and it's made clear that tape, not vinyl, is the analog standard at the high-end.
Last edited by mulveling; 03-12-2018 at 10:48 AM.
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