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Tape Machines => Reel to Reel Tape Machines => Topic started by: docb on March 02, 2012, 10:22:09 AM

Title: ???! These were selling for $3000 just a few years ago
Post by: docb on March 02, 2012, 10:22:09 AM

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&item=300669133302&nma=true&rt=nc&si=Wwl1GiCN3IrHUQqkHbpGa%252BIuAJs%253D&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc#ht_728wt_1272 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&item=300669133302&nma=true&rt=nc&si=Wwl1GiCN3IrHUQqkHbpGa%252BIuAJs%253D&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc#ht_728wt_1272)

What, with no NAB hub adapters? Some day I will be smart enough to buy 10 copies of a deck before I start talking about it.

Title: Re: ???! These were selling for $3000 just a few years ago
Post by: steveidosound on March 02, 2012, 10:50:25 AM

Everything has gone up on ePay. I think though that it actually helps to be a machine with good specs and some degree of desirability and not so common.
The little odd, cheap consumer machines I tend to collect will always be semi-worthless.
BTW, the least expensive machine that theoretically will play TP tapes with the proper EQ has been going for more money as well, but not as much as a Nagra T !

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pioneer-RT-1050-Vintage-Reel-Reel-Player-Recorder-/260923915591?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item3cc046fd47

Title: Re: ???! These were selling for $3000 just a few years ago
Post by: U47 on March 02, 2012, 07:19:24 PM

I sold my super mint t-audio 10 years ago for $3200. It had
56 hours total run time. Came from a huge collection(mostly
Cameras) and the owner only owned one tape(Sinatra). I also
Purchased a Studer A80 1/2 inch two track that had 8 hours on the
Clock.

Better investments than most.

Rich

Title: Re: ???! These were selling for $3000 just a few years ago
Post by: Ki Choi on March 03, 2012, 06:59:11 PM

At this rate, I am holding on to two perfect Nagra Ts for future vacation home in Hawaii...