Reel music
Mar. 8th, 2020 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
murakoziI know I've been terrible about posting here for a long time. I'd like to say I'll post more often, but I have a bad habit of procrastinating when it comes to writing journal stuff.
To illustrate that, here's something I got for myself for my birthday...a year ago.
I love old AV equipment and for years had been wanting to get a reel to reel recorder. Unfortunately, ones that still work and don't need a ton of maintenance repair tend to be rather pricey. I was looking at recorders being sold on ebay when I ran across a listing for the machine pictured above. Call it nostalgia, but I just had to try to buy it.
You see, that's the model that my stepfather had when I was rather young. He owned it before he married my mother. I can remember my mother bringing my sister and me along to Dad's apartment and I was fascinated by the reel to reel player. When I saw it on ebay, I couldn't resist.
It's an Akai X-150D. It was a mid range unit back when it was new. From what I've been able to learn, most of them were sold by the exchanges on US military bases in Asia. That sounds about right, since Dad most likely got his on one of his tours to Viet Nam. Mine was restored by the person selling it, so it runs well. I'm no audiophile, but I think the sound from it is rather good. So far, I've not tried recording on it, though I keep meaning to.
I only have a few tapes to play on it. Now and then I look around on ebay for more tapes, but never seem to win any auctions.
Now I just need to keep myself from finding some other old AV gear to spend money on.
To illustrate that, here's something I got for myself for my birthday...a year ago.
I love old AV equipment and for years had been wanting to get a reel to reel recorder. Unfortunately, ones that still work and don't need a ton of maintenance repair tend to be rather pricey. I was looking at recorders being sold on ebay when I ran across a listing for the machine pictured above. Call it nostalgia, but I just had to try to buy it.
You see, that's the model that my stepfather had when I was rather young. He owned it before he married my mother. I can remember my mother bringing my sister and me along to Dad's apartment and I was fascinated by the reel to reel player. When I saw it on ebay, I couldn't resist.
It's an Akai X-150D. It was a mid range unit back when it was new. From what I've been able to learn, most of them were sold by the exchanges on US military bases in Asia. That sounds about right, since Dad most likely got his on one of his tours to Viet Nam. Mine was restored by the person selling it, so it runs well. I'm no audiophile, but I think the sound from it is rather good. So far, I've not tried recording on it, though I keep meaning to.
I only have a few tapes to play on it. Now and then I look around on ebay for more tapes, but never seem to win any auctions.
Now I just need to keep myself from finding some other old AV gear to spend money on.