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Originally Posted by PHC1
It would be nice to see a resurgence of reel to reel for that analog lover in all of us.. (most of us?)
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Am enjoying a mini dose of resurgence here with the recently-acquired Crown. Even with the limitations high-speed duplication imposes on the used commercially-prerecorded four-track open-reel tapes I've managed to scoop up on eBay, I hear more "there" there on a number of the recordings. So for me the money's well spent.
But I wouldn't expect reel-to-reel to achieve a following today sufficient to support more than a niche effort in either hardware or software production. We're a culture now so acclimated to convenience that the user effort required to keep a deck operating at optimum performance (tape path cleaning and demagnetization every so many hours comes to mind) would inhibit consumer acceptance at anything remotely approaching a level that would warrant major capital investment in the manufacture of reasonably priced hardware or the tapes to play on it. That's too bad. But it's reality.