“I miss Reel-To-Reel tapes.”
Me, too. I had an excellent Teac reel-to-reel that I schlepped around every time I relocated. It was heavy as a car, I think. When I moved to HI, I had to let it go. 😢
High quality reel to reels, high quality phonographs, amps and caameras. The GIs who went to Asia brought them home.
I still have the TEAC R-R deck I bought in 1973. Stationed in Turkey, with access to a ‘stereo club’ in Germany. A good many of us had very, very nice systems in those barracks rooms. Mine was TEAC, Marantz, and Pioneer, with BOSE 901 speakers.