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Tichenor on Tape: Restoration Copies

Editors at Positive Feedback — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 23:12:12 +0000

Harold Tichenor continues his series of articles on reel-to-reel tape in this article on restoration copies. Dr. David W. Robinson, Editor-in-Chief Harold Tichenor at work on a RTR setup... Restoration copies are made from tapes that are deteriorating through wear, age, or inherent flaws. They are the means of assuring that the content is not... Read More »

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RTR Tape Start to EQ (updated July 17, 2024)

Editors at Positive Feedback — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 15:32:58 +0000

Harold Tichenor is a Real-to-Reel (RTR) tape archivist with over 40 years of experience as a professional. His prior article for Positive Feedback was an important summary of RTR provenance and tape generations, which I highly recommend to our readers. In this article, Harold outlines the history and elementals of RTR tape reproduction. It is... Read More »

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Hit Play! Loving Horch House's Latest Yello Release on Tape!

Myles B. Astor — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 17:36:01 +0000

Welcome to the first installment of Hit Play!, a bimonthly column (at least in the beginning) dedicated to the ultimate in music and sound on 15-ips reel-to-reel tape. Why devote space to a column about an obsolete analog format? Easy. Tape is far from obsolete! To start, three companies (Analog Audio Design (France)/Metaxas (Holland)/Ballfinger (Germany)... Read More »

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Innovative Audio in New York City Hosts Metaxas and Sins Reel-to-Reel Tape Machine Introduction

Myles B. Astor — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:34:21 +0000

It's been a tad over 15 years since The Tape Project set the audiophile world atwitter with the release of their first, soon to be followed by 29 more, real time duped, high speed, 15-ips tapes. And it was love at first listen for oh-so many of us! In that intervening time, the reel-to-reel tape... Read More »

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A Hierarchy of Reel-to-Reel Tape Categories: Notes from a Tape Archivist

Editors at Positive Feedback — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 02:55:06 +0000

By Harold Tichenor Harold Tichenor: a portrait. (Photograph by Matt Tichenor.) I encountered Harold Tichenor recently, while looking for a particular box set of the complete Solti Wagner Ring on Decca [recorded in 1958-1959] and issued in 1970, over at discogs.com. Since that time, we have gotten to know each other a bit, and I... Read More »

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Hemiolia Records Master Tapes

Danny Kaey — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 18:44:29 +0000

"Hey Danny, are you familiar with Hemiolia Records?" asked Kerry St. James, YG's formidably friendly European sales director late last year. "No," I replied. "Well, you should and I'll put you in touch with them, I know you love tape and they have some really cool stuff out that I think you'll dig." Fast forward... Read More »

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The Reel Deal: A Trip Around the World of Tape

Myles B. Astor — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 16:21:29 +0000

How times have changed! Just a decade ago tape enthusiasts literally grabbed any title they could get their hands on just to have something, anything, to play on their machines. Many of those tapes, in retrospect, were pretty darn bad. Jump ahead a decade and there is such a glut of tapes on the market... Read More »

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The Reel Deal: Setting The Standard! Prokofiev, Lt. Kije and Stravinsky, Song of the Nightingale

Myles B. Astor — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:19:47 +0000

Prokofiev: Lt. Kije (recorded in 1957); Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale (recorded in 1956), Fritz Reiner (conductor), Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Producer: Richard Mohr; Engineer: Lewis Layton. Acoustic Sounds/RCA Living Stereo Ultra Tape, 15-ips, 2-track, reel-to-reel tape, LSC 2150. Price: $450. Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's performance of Prokofiev's Lt. Kije paired with Stravinsky's The Song... Read More »

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Blank Recording Tape Comparison: Quantegy GP-9 vs. SM-900

Greg Beron — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 19:40:09 +0000

Blank tapes: Not usually the topic of an article in a high-end audio journal! But Greg Beron, he of United Home Audio fame, with its treasure trove of RTR tape recorders, knows whereof he speaks. He has lots of experience with tapes, and here shares a few comments about two tapes that are currently available.... Read More »

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Really Reel: Greg Beron on Tape, Part 2, Opus3 Records Sampler Tape #6

Greg Beron — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 05:55:54 +0000

At the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas I was showing my UHA tape Decks with Tom Campanga of Quintessence Loudspeakers and PBN electronics. We had a nice size room on the main floor at T.H.E. Show in the Flamingo Hotel, thanks to our late pal Richard Beers. The room just happened to be... Read More »

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Really Reel: Greg Beron on Tape, Part 1

Greg Beron — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 03:29:47 +0000

[By way of introduction, Greg Beron has become well known in the world of high-end tape recorders for his outstanding Phasexx series. I was extremely impressed by his Phase11S when it was here back in 2013, and used it to do some seminal test transfers of several of our reference library tapes (e.g., Opus3 Records... Read More »

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