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Most. I already have safety master of Fleetwood Mac and excellent second gen 1/2" copies of Workingman's Dead, Blue, and Crosby, Stills and Nash.

Paranoid now sold out. Larry

As of today, September 15, both Crosby, Stills and Nash and Fleetwood Mac are now sold out. They join Aqualung, Blue, Workingman's Dead, the Yes Album, and Superfly. So seven of the thirteen albums released so far have sold out. Remaining are Electric Warrior, Tres Hombres, Fun House, His Band...

The Rhino tapes are selling very well. So far four tapes are sold out - the Yes Album, Workingman's Dead, Joni Mitchell Blue and Aqualung. In addition Super Fly has disappeared from the Rhino Website. So there are 8 tape albums available - out of 13 that have been released so far. I received...

Two new releases today (August 28,2026). The self titled Black Sabbath first album and second album, Paranoid. Releasing 500 copies each. Same $300 per album on one LPR90 tape reel. Larry

Newest Rhino Tape title (August 24, 2026) Jethro Tull Aqualung. Same $300 price for the album. They also said they were down to five reels left for the Yes Album and Joni Mitchell Blue. Larry

Newest Rhino Titles: Crosby, Stills and Nash S/T (first album) Van Morrison His Band and Street Choir New plan is to release 15 titles per year. Really big news, given the $300 price per album and the huge Rhino (Warners) catalogue. Larry

Rhino is part of Warner Music Group and has access to their huge catalogue. These include many great titles. This includes the pop/rock albums that have been missing from the high quality commercial tape releases (15ips 2 track). Additionally, these releases are made by RTM on LPR90, 1 mil...

I have a 1/2" safety master of DSOTM from the '80's. :) Larry

Revox did release a new version of their B77, Version MK III, earlier this year. Price 17K Euros. Larry

Do you still have it in operation? If so, what cartridge are you using with it? Thanks. Larry

I remember back in the '80's or maybe early '90s that people were recommending recording high quality audio on the recently introduced SVHS system, using SVHS blank tapes. The specs showed that the quality of the sound should have been equal or better than audio tape (R2R at 7.5ips). Also...

My two Ampex ATR-102's are from the late '70's, so getting close to 50 years old. I use them every day, my main sources for recorded music. Both were bought used separately 8 years ago, both came from recording studios where they were no longer being used. My Pacific Microsonics Model Two is...

Here are my 15ips 2 track machines (2 Ampex ATR102's one with 1/2" headblock, other 1/4" headblock, 1 Otari MX5050BII plays both 2 and 4 track stereo). All have bypass playback wiring to my Merrill Trident tape preamp (which takes three inputs, hence the name). Larry

Interesting. I have a 2 reel 15ips 2 track tape copy made from a Studio Master by CBS International in Holland. The original tape with catalogue Epic 85930 listed looks like it was made in 1984, it says 84RE which usually means a reissue from two years after the original release, listed on the...