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Music Appreciation

jalan48

(13,905 posts) Sat Dec 4, 2021, 03:03 PM Dec 2021

AS YOU SAID by Cream featuring Jack Bruce

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AS YOU SAID by Cream featuring Jack Bruce (Original Post) jalan48 Dec 2021 OP

I got a small cassette deck for Christmas 1968. rsdsharp Dec 2021 #1

My brother had it on a reel to reel tape deck he brought back from Taiwan while jalan48 Dec 2021 #2

I've got a 10 1/2 Pioneer reel deck. I'm not sure anyone sells pre-recorded reels anymore. rsdsharp Dec 2021 #3

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rsdsharp

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1. I got a small cassette deck for Christmas 1968.

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Sat Dec 4, 2021, 03:53 PM

Dec 2021

My brother gave me a couple of cassettes. One of them was a Cream album. Waaay before Dolby. I still have it, but the level of tape hiss makes it more like noise to signal ratio.

jalan48

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2. My brother had it on a reel to reel tape deck he brought back from Taiwan while

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Sat Dec 4, 2021, 04:03 PM

Dec 2021

he was on R&R from Vietnam. There weren't many bands using a cello back then.

rsdsharp

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3. I've got a 10 1/2 Pioneer reel deck. I'm not sure anyone sells pre-recorded reels anymore.

Reply to jalan48 (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 4, 2021, 04:12 PM

Dec 2021

I checked Amazon a couple of years ago. A blank 10 1/2 reel was $100! And it wasn’t even very good tape.

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