Loved my Teac reel to reel (X7-R). If it would’ve been a car, it would’ve had 500,000 miles on the odometer before it gave up the ghost. Loved everything about having a reel to reel during the ‘80s, …going thru the motions of threading a reel up, making recordings, playback at altered speed with the X7-R’s pitch control, etc, etc, etc.. To steal a line from “Lebowski”, it really fit right there in it’s time and place. Would I give up digital streaming to go back to that? Naaah. Probably not.
Your experience in "in their day" brands/components that you remember foundly?
I love music and have enjoyed "high-end" audio for several decades.
With this being said, I am interested in hearing what may be your
"golden oldies" that you have owned? For me there are many that
were part of my beginnig. The original large Advents and a Yamaha
CA-1000 started my "better gear" travels...that lead to Dahlquists, Magnepans,
and seperated from Audio Research, Conrad Johnson, early Classe and
many others. What were your "roots" that helped your journey?