Originally posted by barondla Don't think Brendan meant 8 track cartridges! He is rich. Said pro recorder. Thinking something like a Scully Reel or Revox running 1" tape with 8 tracks. Like albums are recorded (good ones any way). Doubt you can buy 8 track blank tape cartridges any more. Who would buy them? How many of those machines still work?
Makes me want to spin some lps later tonight.
thanks
barondla
Perhaps, but then the 8 track cart WOULD whomp in the middle of Stairway to the next pair... And yes, there's a subculture that maintains and restores the old 8 tracks...
I reached a point of retro-satisfaction with my hifi set, no longer in the GAS or GBA... I have the Linn LP-12, usually a Shure V15mr but sometimes a Grado. A dbAudio phono preamp (because I screwed up building the phono preamp for the next item
, an Audio Note pre amp kit, then either a Quicksilver GLA or a 7 watt single ended 300b tubed Audio Note kit amp. I use a $5 cd player from a yard sale - it replaced the same model I threw out a few years ago, and replaced a Sony sacd player also. A Marantz. And a 70s vintage Radio Shack tuner, although it was tricked out by a specialist FM outfit. Upstairs I have a Marantz 2216B.
Downstairs, I have JBL Lancer 77's with a home brew series crossover to modern ribbons. These are from the late 60's or very early 70s. Upstairs, Lancer 44's that have the LE8 full range drivers, also from that time period.
In the basement: Dyna a25's, some old Electro Voice speaks that for some reason sing on tubes but sound retarded on transistors. Oh and a Musical Concepts modified Dyna ST70. and*sigh* a 6 channel Adcom amp, plus a Le..La..Lexicon? surround sound processor, and some more miscellaneous speakers. The Dyna's are hooked up as the main pair for the TV down there.
As I said, my GAS is over, building those damn amps got me most of the way there, and then finding the JBL's finished me off.