PS Audio - Surround Sound not more popular with Audiophiles?

[ar surround]

Try getting tape of any kind now!

$86 for 48 minute capacity at 15 ips. Gag!

https://www.amazon.com/RTM-LPR35-ma...0972114&sprefix=reel+to+re,aps,93&sr=8-1&th=1

 

[Sonik Wiz]

Try getting tape of any kind now!

Really the audio is quite terrible.

 

[esimms86]

Really the audio is quite terrible.

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This can’t be reel!

 

[esimms86]

$86 for 48 minute capacity at 15 ips. Gag!

https://www.amazon.com/RTM-LPR35-magnetic-audio-recording/dp/B0BXPPRD83/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2RKPRRG0RPL32&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Sy2gL57AKdNjD78Yl-lpjw_Nsj5XzldUY-EOhefvKsnMBmdbcFzvFeQC5rJhwPNqLAg0k1OkfYVmriNuG0PbfhO_izadRjIfZkb2sjt8iyZ428WCPJF0vcaQh3Zq9C__SBMwvRahmWOS1oTQt_-YgA6rfEYEhfToswPQWysZJ-XOOyw_Rmp_oYy9_ergoLoUDhw_V7_MthdWdHdmE1C-zpvORFUXMxup29JT4lx9v7iWO0iOXrtWik654Oor8dHKl9-Dj_OZHpOf5iXHiW6cQ0_7qScyufZLqt9994Z4JeeQuqPxk3AF8I0e8a6IqqKThRIDrNzB_b9DExwx3I2VAXkTIjDqiK1np9aY3HIPtjPWomR0pNP2vOhLjZcJQwB7i-ZGC046nlZK7D-D9Phfx7Q3Tyly16J_EvMQwmZUq2wxvsxM0AX5g-kFm12cshjU.xumVZX9fskwIf2b6QTAJTr_QozIwUlbE75Pv4s48M-4&dib_tag=se&keywords=reel+to+reel+tape&qid=1740972114&sprefix=reel+to+re,aps,93&sr=8-1&th=1

There are only two companies left in the tape selling business. You would have to be rich and/or crazy to jump into reel-to-reel at this point.

 

[ar surround]

Really the audio is quite terrible.

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That was the first thing that came into my mind, but I feared getting banned from the forum for posting something like this. Lol

 

[esimms86]

That was the first thing that came into my mind, but I feared getting banned from the forum for posting something like this. Lol

Sonik has been relegated to The Reel Househusbands of QQ.

 

[barfle]

Really the audio is quite terrible.

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It might be OK if you run it through a bin of iron filings.

 

[DuncanS]

Really the audio is quite terrible.

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Well that has scotched the rumours

 

[ar surround]

Try getting tape of any kind now!

Do you see what you have done with your little statement, Midi? This thread has gone totally off the reels.

 

[Sonik Wiz]

That was the first thing that came into my mind, but I feared getting banned from the forum for posting something like this. Lol

If you were to get one of those big studio quality 2 incher Ampex machines you would need like a 10" reel of duct tape.

 

[~dave~~wave~]

Acoustic Sounds has reel to reel, for a price:

https://store.acousticsounds.com/cat/397/Reel_to_Reel

 

[mandrix]

Well every self respecting audiophool audiophile knows instinctively that the more money you spend, the better the sound.

 

[esimms86]

Acoustic Sounds has reel to reel, for a price:

https://store.acousticsounds.com/cat/397/Reel_to_Reel

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So you can get a refurbished Mara deck for a mere $1950 under the price of a brand new, built in 2025 Revox B77.

If any of those prices were on my head I wouldn't be around anymore!

 

[ar surround]

So you can get a refurbished Mara deck for a mere $1950 under the price of a brand new, built in 2025 Revox B77.

If any of those prices were on my head I wouldn't be around anymore!

In the mean time, Steven Wilson has figured out how to achieve the "sound" of those analog tape machines using the digital domain.

 

[esimms86]

In the mean time, Steven Wilson has figured out how to achieve the "sound" of those analog tape machines using the digital domain.

As far as I can tell, there should be no technical reason why the euphonic sound of tape saturation can’t be reproduced digital. I would argue the same for tube saturation. If I still owned a turntable I would A/B the sound of a needle drop with the same vinyl LP. No doubt, it’s been done multiple times before by other audiophiles.

 

[ar surround]

As far as I can tell, there should be no technical reason why the euphonic sound of tape saturation can’t be reproduced digital. I would argue the same for tube saturation. If I still owned a turntable I would A/B the sound of a needle drop with the same vinyl LP. No doubt, it’s been done multiple times before by other audiophiles.

However the music was recorded, in the final analysis, it all comes down to the great wisdom of @marpow . (His words etched forever pictorially in time, never to be assailed by the QQ Bleeper Bot):

 

[esimms86]

However the music was recorded, in the final analysis, it all comes down to the great wisdom of @marpow . (His words etched forever pictorially in time, never to be assailed by the QQ Bleeper Bot):

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The man’s a poet.