Reel To Reel Vs Vinyl

Played on unwieldy machines that conjure visions of abscam sting operations and boogie nights bachelor pads.

Reel to reel vs vinyl. A tape emulation plugin. Second johnny s point about the development of tape playback vs vinyl playback are imho true. The recording quality is constantly monitored using sound level meters to ensure the best signal to noise ratio. Their reel to reel tapes are the classic sm 468 the only tape that has proven its worth and stood the test of time over several decades.

Let s return to real tape machines open reel decks. Too young to have purchased prerecorded reel to reel tape in the late 50 s or early 60 s comparing a prerecorded tape of frank sinatra or my fair lady for example to the same recording on cd or vinyl where does rtr tape rank. Controlled envoirnment and using a mint studer. Let s assume all tapes are mint and were kept in a temp.

The goal of the companies making pro tape machines in the analogue era 1950 s to early 1980 s was to. Even if vinyl was better you cannot fully make use of it no cartridge will be able to extract all the information from the groove and present it as a complete flow as opposed to imperfectly connected elements and that s plus coloration. The real vinyl killer turns out to be reel to reel tape. There s been something happening here as i continue to upgrade my tape front end.