Yep, Teac. I've purchased a couple box lots of reel to reel tapes over the past couple months and have done quite well selling on ebay. spent 50 for both lots and have sold 7 tapes for a total of 170, still have about 10 to sell including two early Beatles. I made sure all worked by borrowing a crappy reel to reel player from a good friend and listening to each tape from beginning to end. His player was awful---crackling speakers--so I bought this off a CL ad for 160. A one owner deck in excellent condition that I can play through one of my many systems.
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When I was in the Air Force every airman had a stereo system in his barracks room. I had a Sony TC-377 reel to reel, a Craig 8 track recorder/player, cassette recorder/player, AR turntable, amplifier/receiver kit I assembled and a set of speakers(can't remember the brand
). We would swap records and I was discharged with a vast inventory of 60's/70's music. Eventually, the Sony broke and the reel to reel tapes were stored in the basement
In the 90's I found an Akai reel to reel with crossfield heads and auto reverse at a yard sale for .25. Yes..............25 cents. I took it home, plugged it in and it worked, so Igot the tapes out of storage and found that most every tape did not play well, so I got pissed off(I know, wrong thread) and threw all the tapes away and sold the Akai for 125$. It'd most likely be worth at least 600 today, funny how vinyl and reel to reels are coming back. Can't tell you how much time I spent building a music collection but it is all gone, still have a fairly extensive vinyl but not what I once had. There is something very soothing when pulling a record out, making sure it is clean and listening while checking the liner notes.
