Tape Project Forum
Tape Machines => Reel to Reel Tape Machines => Topic started by: astrotoy on July 18, 2016, 11:56:01 PM
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After a four month wait, my new (used) Ampex ATR-102 has arrived. I was able to get it with a used Doshi tape prepro, and had the 102 set up to play both 1/2" and 1/4" tapes at 15ips and 7.5ips. The only thing I didn't get was a 1/2" take up reel - but that is coming this week. I separately was able to buy a large collection of prerecorded 15ips 2 track tapes, including 50 1/2" tapes. In the collection were 8 of the first ten TP tapes, all in 1/2". So now I have both 1/2" and 1/4" versions to compare. Anxiously waiting for the take up reel!
Larry
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Congrats Larry!
I am green with envy my friend.
Looking forward to hearing it in your system one of these days.
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Thanks, Steve. I'll do a gathering at the house when I get everything together, sometime this fall. Larry
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What a beauty! Most linear tape machine in existence & top of my tape machine wish list. Promise to use it often.
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I've returned from a long trip and after getting tech supreme Krieg Wunderlich (who does the Ampex work for Tape Project) to fix a couple of issues with my new ATR-102, I have been playing my tapes, starting with a number of 1/2" tapes, part of large collection I bought, about the same time this Spring as the 102. Using the Doshi 3.0 tape prepro, I have been in music lovers heaven, even playing jazz albums that I do not know. The albums were first recorded more than 50 years ago, but they sound like they were recorded yesterday.
A few standards include Time Out, Kind of Blue, and A Love Supreme, but others including Art Blakey's African Beat and one classical album - Reiner's Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta - all on 1/2" tape. I also have 8 of the first 10 of the Tape Project albums (all but the two Deccas) on 1/2" which were part of the collection.
I'll be playing through the 1/2" tapes over the next week or so, and then to 1/4" tapes.
What an amazing experience!
Larry
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How enjoyable it must be! Comparison of 1/4" and 1/2" program material...most cool.