After decades of drought and searching for still good 40 year old reel to reel tape, new tape is available. And great quality is said to be. ATR Magnetics. www.atrtape.com
Decks are the other issue. Nobody will probably ever make an affordable, quality deck again, as they are 75% mechanical mechanism and very labor intensive to build. The option is get an old deck and have a qualified company that rebuilds them do so ($5-600 typical cost). The lube and rubber parts do not last decades. Lube turns to molasses. Rubber turns petrified. All new rqd.
But NEW TAPE. I have not researched cassette, but for cassette users I would guess same situation.
Thanks for the info; I love reel to reel. Nothing sounds quite as good to me, I dunno.
I need to find someone to work on my deck. It plays slow on the 7 1/2 in/s speed. :/
I'm not very familiar with the reel-to-reel stuff, but have heard and read stories of several artists who are turning to cassettes to record their music and get it in people's hands. I like tapes still. I've even made some tapes within the last couple years...it's that time of year I get the old Jeeps out and they have tape players, kind of cool actually to pop a tape in the deck but I like stuff that is old.
