ROBBIES


ELECTRONICS EMPORIUM



In this shop I sell and put up new items on a weekly basis. At the end of each week the item is retired never to return again. The site pays homage to Mr. ROB of long street Queenstown SA of whom I was a customer for over 50 years. Most items are valve audio related, general vintage electronics and RF, parts, bit's and pieces and sometimes a grab bag of assorted goodies.

This is a reel to reel tape from a recently purchased lot of 2500 titles, I will be putting all of these up on ebay over the next 6 months as it is a very time consuming process. All tapes are unmolested from how I purchased them, they have not been removed from the protective covers, tested, played with in any way and are sold on the basis that if you receive a defective purchase I will refund less postage within 7 days.

 I will combine shipping and if you purchase 3 or more tapes I will post for free. Just pay for the total of your shopping cart and I will refund postage.

Resurgence in interest in collecting Reel To Reel tapes

Why Reel to reel, other formats such as cassette and vinyl have been popular over the years as against digital versions of classic recordings originally mastered on tape in the 50's 60's 70's and 80's. Most reel to reel music tapes have been made from direct descendants of the studio master tapes, no or little post processing at all so in general offer better dynamics, bass response, channel separation no compression or EQ and offer great listening pleasure.

Most commercial formats are either on 5" or 7" tape reels the 5" reels always recorded at the lower tape speed of 3 3/4ips, most 7" reels recorded at 7 1/2 ips twice the speed and the fastest of all of the different tape media (cassette, 8-track). Most 3 3/4ips tape have an upper frequency limit of 10khz and the 7 1/2ips extend to 15khz equal or better than most pickup cartridges and preamps. Best of all little hum, crackle and disk noise.

All of the tapes listed here are 7"

Closing Scenes from Strauss Salome - Vienna Philharmonica

7 1/2 ips    ips