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Agreed, and that’s why I’m sitting this one out and instead pouring all my investment capital into the next craze, reel-to-reel machines!

IgorPartola 2y ago
To me there is nothing cooler than a huge reel to reel when it comes to different formats. If I had some free time and space for it I would definitely want to buy one of the giant consoles and then hook up a write head right before the read head so that it can play off any digital source like Spotify but still do it with the huge reels and everything.
- kylebenzle 2y ago
  Weird!
- Nevermark 2y ago
  Why wouldn’t you just use the reel like a visual-only scroll bar for stylish physical feedback on play progress? Either way, the physical media in your imagined setup, and what you are playing, have no special relationship. No need to use it like a bad transmission wire. If it can’t transmit across time (storage) it is not a real “reel” anyway.
  - card_zero 2y ago
    I enjoy noise music, I just finished listening to a 20-minute arrhythmic improvisational jazz track with a guy singing in a kind of Simlish. So I can imagine that lower fidelity, or a bad transmission wire, might be part of an enjoyable experience. On the other hand, apart from the trivial detail of us all living in our own unique problem situations, I'm pretty sure that my preferences are the best and anybody else would be revealed to have stupid ones, if only we could communicate about them. But (speaking of bad transmission wires) detailed communication about ineffable private experiences is patchy at best, so regrettably we have to leave one another in peace to enjoy stuff, and lay off on the backseat driving.
    - Nevermark 2y ago
      Touché!
miunau 2y ago
You jest, but R2R is what some audiophiles are generally on about as being the bees knees, and has been getting popular again. I like physical music, but the prices on those is too much. I have heard some really good sounding reels, though I can never shake the feeling that they just have been recorded really, really well, using expensive equipment I can't afford to even rent, and would've sounded the same having been recorded digitally.
- 6stringmerc 2y ago
  That I do and you’re also spot on that it does have a lot of merit as a medium - Les Paul did so much for music by lugging R2R gear around and proving its worth in the studio that his legacy is at the pinnacle of any and all people who, well, love music!
  - miunau 2y ago
    Could do worse than investing in some reels in this climate. At least they're fungible.

IgorPartola 2y ago

To me there is nothing cooler than a huge reel to reel when it comes to different formats. If I had some free time and space for it I would definitely want to buy one of the giant consoles and then hook up a write head right before the read head so that it can play off any digital source like Spotify but still do it with the huge reels and everything.

kylebenzle 2y ago
Weird!
Nevermark 2y ago
Why wouldn’t you just use the reel like a visual-only scroll bar for stylish physical feedback on play progress? Either way, the physical media in your imagined setup, and what you are playing, have no special relationship. No need to use it like a bad transmission wire. If it can’t transmit across time (storage) it is not a real “reel” anyway.
- card_zero 2y ago
  I enjoy noise music, I just finished listening to a 20-minute arrhythmic improvisational jazz track with a guy singing in a kind of Simlish. So I can imagine that lower fidelity, or a bad transmission wire, might be part of an enjoyable experience. On the other hand, apart from the trivial detail of us all living in our own unique problem situations, I'm pretty sure that my preferences are the best and anybody else would be revealed to have stupid ones, if only we could communicate about them. But (speaking of bad transmission wires) detailed communication about ineffable private experiences is patchy at best, so regrettably we have to leave one another in peace to enjoy stuff, and lay off on the backseat driving.
  - Nevermark 2y ago
    Touché!

miunau 2y ago

You jest, but R2R is what some audiophiles are generally on about as being the bees knees, and has been getting popular again. I like physical music, but the prices on those is too much. I have heard some really good sounding reels, though I can never shake the feeling that they just have been recorded really, really well, using expensive equipment I can't afford to even rent, and would've sounded the same having been recorded digitally.

6stringmerc 2y ago
That I do and you’re also spot on that it does have a lot of merit as a medium - Les Paul did so much for music by lugging R2R gear around and proving its worth in the studio that his legacy is at the pinnacle of any and all people who, well, love music!
- miunau 2y ago
  Could do worse than investing in some reels in this climate. At least they're fungible.