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Reel to Reel Tape Machines / Re: Otari MRT-15 vs ???

« on: August 02, 2012, 05:18:13 PM »

My real name is Leon Rivkin

How do I use it in my posts

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Reel to Reel Tape Machines / Re: Otari MRT-15 vs ???

« on: August 02, 2012, 03:10:05 AM »

Thats what I understood/ - one of the most versatile machines ever and very goodsounding to boot

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Reel to Reel Tape Machines / Otari MRT-15 vs ???

« on: July 31, 2012, 09:26:39 PM »

Found one from a source I trust.
Fully rebuilt/serviced and I do trust gentelman as in the past he allways came through.
He will also have a custom headstack with 1/4" 2 track and 1/4" 4 track heads only for playback purposes built for me.

How good it is a a transport?
How good is a preamp portion of machine compared to lets say Bottlhead RePro

What machines can serve as a better transports or standalone machines?

Thanks

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Reel to Reel Tape Machines / Re: Novice seeking guidance. What machine to get

« on: July 31, 2012, 09:17:04 PM »

It does give me a very good place to start. I belive I should be moving on to the studio machines right off the bat as I've been down this path before - you start out with VPI TNT 5 - decent turn table and then 16 TT later you end up with walker black diamond and you do take 20 minutes to readjust level, air pressure dampening fluid point  and belt tension before begining playback and adjust VTA for each record to get the best out of it. Looking back I understand what $$$ I loss buying and selling tables, tonearms and cartriges would have payed for most of the TTs I keep now :(

 Another time I just wanted a sport car to king of play a bit - lets start soft and do a little bit of mods - well - 3 years later I have original 996 GT2 widowmaker and heavily modified to boot - close to 800hp and fully redone suspension and tranny. But with a money Ive lost during that jorney I could have paid for it and another Ferrary or Maserati convertable for suuny days.

I hope I learned my lesson and I should move sraight to the top of the heap provided what it has enough versatility - I do not know what I do not know yet
:)

Your recomendations about cheking machine out are very helpfull - I think I  will procure machine from couple of guys I trust

Which of big studio machines are near top of the heap

I'm leaning towards Otari MA15

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Prerecorded Tapes / Where does one buys tapes

« on: July 29, 2012, 10:14:04 PM »

And what to look for. I'm looking to buy my first reel-to -reel machine and very intrested in source for tapes.
I gues e-bay is a place to begin.
What do I need to know about tapes.
I understannd what as a rule of the thumb faster speed =  better quality.
What else.
What other sources besides Tape project are availiable.

I like good acoustic/vocal stuff and some of classical, enjoy good pop and rock - most of the stuff I like are not audiophile quality to begin with but on proper equipment will sound quite good :)

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Reel to Reel Tape Machines / Novice seeking guidance. What machine to get

« on: July 29, 2012, 09:57:09 PM »

I recently became very intresteed in R2R machines after hearing some of the marvelos sound at NY Stereophile show.
I' very expirienced audiophile with state of the art Digital(Esoteric P-0 modified by Omachi himself and 3D Audio vesion of Audionote 7 DAC) and vinyl (Walker Black Diamond 3 as a main table, Forsell Air Ref, Acoustic Solid Royal, Verdie and Origin Live Conqueror, - tonearms are Grahm Phantom II, Triplanar, Kuzma 4Point, OL Illustrios,  with Zyx Sigma, Zyx Universe, Zyx Omega,  Ortophone MC90A, London Decca Refference, VDH top of the line Colibri, Brinkman EMT cartriges)

Rest of the reproduction chain is also  top notch.

Know nothing about tapes and machines but I'm trainable :)
I'm looking for suggestion for top-notch machines - something with great sound and some versatility

I need some versatility since I do not have a good source of tapes which means I'll be playing stuff from e-bay

I'm OK with budjets up to $15K

Thanks for any suggestions