Sale of Tascam 34 deck….one very happy customer…
Eye candy from Peter’s Treehouse Studios mobile truck out of New York, and my Ampex ATR 104 4 channel ½” on the second pix.
Peter writes…
The machine is a Stephens, with the Stephens transport (the early ones used a 3M transport, until they started outselling 3M😊, they pulled the plug and John Stephens had to design his own). The whole machine (transport, electronics and PSU weigh in at a measly 110 pounds.
Pete Keppler
TreeHouse Music, Inc.
treehousemusic.studio
+1 917-971-8715 (text/mobile)
Another satisfied customer with a Technics 1520 purchased from me recently.
Douglas writes ..
Finally set up the tape deck and it sounds great thanks Curt
Very cool message from Tom…
Hi, Curt – This is one of your machines – thank you! Tom 
Read what Walter from “down under” has to say!
Hi Curt,
I wanted to let you know these awesome reels arrived safely today and say a big THANK YOU!
Here’s a couple of pics of my set ups with the reels on them and seriously I do love the “prestige” look that these have given my R2R players.
Pics in order below:
- Sony TC-330 – this is a WIP, not currently working but I have a good friend (Peter) who loves fixing reel to reels, a bit like yourself. It has a Cassette deck on it also.
- Feel free to critique, not sure how valued these are, I got it for $25 (maybe its junk?) but I just liked the look of a deck style with a cassette built in, so it’s a showpiece, nothing more at present
- AKAI X-201D – this is my working R2R – I do love to listen to this one, such a beautiful warm sound and its hooked up to my Pioneer Hi-Fi and 2 x big floor standing JAMO 355 speakers with 2 x smaller Pioneer speakers S-55X mounted on the wall up high to create a “wall of sound” ! LOL
- Listening to original Abbey Road reel this week and the sound is just amazing, I put it on a par with the current 2019 remaster – personally I think its clearer, warmer and sounds as nature intended.
- Sharp – this is just a showpiece also – got this one for free. It doesn’t even have a model number on it , so not sure if any good or just “junk” etc. I’ll keep it as a showpiece for present. Feel free to add your critique. My mate Peter will check this one out for me after the Sony analysis ! LOL.
- Thanks for the gorgeous boxes that the reels came in also. Fourth pic below. Love they are colour coded too ! Definitely a keep sake.
Curt, I will be back again, Likely I will buy a few more reels from you as these are fantastic, really happy with them.
Question – Do you ever get old plastic reels with the cool names on them like BASF, Phillips, CBS etc?
If you ever do I would be happy to buy some of these from you.
Also any other old style kit like plastic reel to reel boxes ( I recall BASF had a grey plastic one and one end of it would be white plastic and flip out to pull the tape out of it etc.
Any other paraphernalia like original tool kits, splice kits etc etc….would love to get my hands on too !
I remember years ago my Dad and older brother Tony had all this original BASF gear for their decks, but who knows where it went.
My Dad has passed and my older Brother is 80 !. I’m 61 now and sort of fell in love with R2R at an early age from watching them but I never lost the interest.
I think Covid lockdown really gave me time to reignite the interest and I’m fortunate enough to continue to work from home for my employer and so it’s a WIN-WIN.
Anyways great to meet, I will keep in touch and thanks so much for being available on Christmas and Boxing Day. So good to find real enthusiasts like yourself.
Best regards
Walter
An update from Craig….
Recent email from Ben re his Tascam TSR-8…
Our black reels on a Teac X2000R!
