Tag: Tape

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We Are Rewind Cassette Player Launched

We have been bringing you news about cassette tape being the next big comeback in Audio and Hifi for the last few years. Recording The Masters are making cassette tapes again, but their Kickstarter funded campaign to launch their Mystik portable cassette player, failed to hit it’s 50,000€ target.

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Recording The Masters Release Mystik Portable Cassette Player

Adding more fuel to the whisperings that cassette tape is the next old school format to be revived, Recording The Masters, the French tape manufacturer, is just about to launch MYSTIK, which they say is “a modern-day analogue cassette player with a focus on quality audio playback”.

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Metaxas And Sins T-RX Portable Reel To Reel Finally In Production

After 35 years of serious recording work for Broadcast Television using Swiss portable and studio machines from Stellavox (the SM8 portables & TD9 Studio machine), and over 40 years experience in the Hi End Audio industry, Artist/Designer/Recording Engineer Kostas Metaxas has finally designed what he hopes will be “the ultimate machine to capture an unrivalled […]

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Recording The Masters Cassette Tapes Announced

We have heard a lot recently about the rise of another, once thought outdated, format. The cassette tape. Global cassette consumption is increasing and the media are talking about an 80% growth in recent years. In addition, artists and independent labels are releasing new albums on cassette tapes.

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Keeping It Reel

In the last three years or so we have seen a steady increase in the number of reel to reel players at High End in Munich and it seems that more and more audiophiles are adopting the format despite the relatively small number of new releases on tape. Of course there are a handful of […]

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Ballfinger Reel To Reel Tape Recorder And Tangential Turntable Unveiled

After a four-year development period, Ballfinger has introduced the first newly developed analogue tape recorder for around 25 years, the Tonbandmaschine M 063 was revealed at the Norddeutschen Hifi-Tage, in Hamburg last weekend. They also unveiled their new Schallplattenspieler PS 2 Directl-drive Turntable with active radial arm and moving coil system.