I’ve had somewhat of a tumultuous relationship with reel to reel; my first Pioneer RT-707 didn’t record, my Otari MX-5050 snapped more tapes than a turtle, and my next few decks were poorly maintained.

In the next few years I avoided getting back into the format, until i saw this Denon DH-710S and bit the bullet one last time. I’m glad I did. The sound of analogue tape is hard to describe - big, luscious and velvety smooth - without a hint of sluggishness.

So beautiful ❤️

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Great to see r2r’s on the sub. What kind of tape collection do you have?

My 7.5IPS commercial releases are the best sounding physical media that I own. Zeppelin III is probably the crown of my collection.

Can’t say I’ve ever seen cm/s (38 and 19) machine.

Has a guy who knows nothing about reel to reel machines: that thing is beautiful!

I’ve been into reel to reels for over 40 years,I’ve owned multiple Akais and a couple Roberts over time. I never had any idea that Denon built some. Cool find!

Living Stereo advertisement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVQ0mhxBuf4

the origins of stereo recording and the amazing audio advancements they made in the 50’s and 60’s are super interesting.

if you haven’t heard it, check out the wagner ring cycle recordings from the early 60’s with solti and the vienna philharmonic for early stereo awesomeness.

yt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDwCE13nyPo spotify - https://open.spotify.com/track/0Qz6v5BYL25uFJSt7HBs73?si=bb6f966208c646de

Not going to knock your passion one bit, everyone has things they love about audio, but I come from the broadcast world, and from their inception we’ve hated carts and reel-to-reel from an audio quality pov. Sure, carts are massively convenient, and rtr on slow play lets you play out or record hours and hours of program material at a time, but holy shit the wow and flutter and noise was so annoying, and storage sucked. Was so glad to move to digital when CDs came out.

Beautiful