Preorder your new Revox B77 Mark III

[JRhoBurton]

I just got an email on this from Sepea Audio. It would be fun to buy one, but they are pricey.

No affiliation.

REVOX B77 Mk.III Stereo Tape Recorder (new production)

Revox open reel tape recorders development team has now redesigned B77 - a true audio icon and improved it with significant new features. SEPEA audio is an authorized distributor & reseller of REVOX B77 new production tape recorders as well as an experienced service depot for vintage REVOX reel...

sepeaaudio.com

 

[turnitup]

Beautiful deck - where are they sourcing new high-quality tape to support these big beasts???

 

[Blue Shadow]

RTM and ATR can supply tape for those machines.

 

[turnitup]

Impressive that they are actually taking this on as a project. Sounds like all individually hand made. Makes you wonder if they came across an ancient parts stash for this particular deck/model or something. Can’t imagine how else this could be done in the low volume production run that these will generate. Pretty cool!

https://sepeaaudio.com/content/EN_Revox_image-brochure_web.pdf

 

[turnitup]

RTM and ATR can supply tape for those machines.

Not familiar with either supplier - not that that really says anything! Likely European manufacturers. The tried and true, “standard providers” for 1/4” tape are unfortunately long, long gone…

 

[Blue Shadow]

ATR Magnetics is in York, PA
RTM is in France and used to be a number of different names we know, but I would have to look that up. Think the facility is fairly new.

They make some tapes a leap forward from the old stuff we like…Maxwell, TDK, Scotch and others.

 

[Crash15]

RTM, for example, sells 10.5" reels on scamazon. Metal or plastic or even bare tape, prime shipped. The 10.5" metal reel has one-day shipping but it's also $94

 

[Blue Shadow]

The tried and true, “standard providers” for 1/4” tape are unfortunately long, long gone…

There are better tapes today from the former BASF company in a different country so the names have changed but most of the rest is the same. Tape is not a cheap source but a versatile source.

If I was going into tape today I’d have a damn fine machine tuned up for one of the +9dB or higher tapes that are new production. They are expensive, something I did not say before Covid when a metal reel of tape was about the same as in the late 70s adjusted for inflation at 68 or so.

Backing up the 94 today to 1979, the only number I have for tape cost you get 21.62 and Maxwell was selling for about 25. My number is salesman accommodation price of 14.10 per reel, generally half of list price but finding list price on tape is hard as it was always sold for less to get the kids in the store to by a brick of cassettes and look at all the knobs and stuff on the new gear in the store. So tape today is selling for about what it did in the late 70s. But it looks expensive at 75-100 a reel.

 

[radiokom]

ATR Magnetics is in York, PA
RTM is in France and used to be a number of different names we know, but I would have to look that up. Think the facility is fairly new.

They make some tapes a leap forward from the old stuff we like…Maxwell, TDK, Scotch and others.

RTM is former BASF equipment (at least partially). BASF-EMTEC-RMGI-Pyral-RTM. Various owners and various names + a lot of bankruptcies. Plant in France is the same former BASF equipment, technology and formulas too. RTM now is the best new tapes available. The same BASF quality, MRL use them for test tapes for many years.

Professional and Long Play Analog Audio Tapes | RTM

Get professional & long play analog audio tapes with superior recording and sound playback qualities at the best prices from RTM.

www.recordingthemasters.com

 

[radiokom]

I just got an email on this from Sepea Audio. It would be fun to buy one, but they are pricey.

No affiliation.

REVOX B77 Mk.III Stereo Tape Recorder (new production)

Revox open reel tape recorders development team has now redesigned B77 - a true audio icon and improved it with significant new features. SEPEA audio is an authorized distributor & reseller of REVOX B77 new production tape recorders as well as an experienced service depot for vintage REVOX reel...

sepeaaudio.com

For €16082,92 to eat chocolate what is already eaten once? No, thanks, I will stay on my A80. Anyone who want fully overhauled, technically as new B77 can get it by EUR 1500. And for EUR 2000 it will be as new even cosmetically.

 

[mcgjohn]

Beautiful deck - where are they sourcing new high-quality tape to support these big beasts???

There are also tons of 15 ips 2 track re-issues. Far from cheap but they are available.

 

[JediDude]

Well. This deck just got added to the "Win the Lottery (Big Time)" shoppping list.

 

[twiiii]

I guess I should have waited a couple a years more before selling my B-77 MK II with a variable speed controller. The machine was originally 7.5/15 ips and also had a 4 th head for playing back 1/4 trk tapes. The variable speed control allowed speeds from below 2 ips to above 20 ips as I remember. But I wouldn't invest that kind of money. I would fire up one of my old Professional AMPEX Studio Recorders instead. Revox of anytype couldn't handle the signal levels the Pro Ampexs put on tape. It took Prof. Studer Machines to do that. Especially using the advanced low noise high output tapes Maxell and TDK were making at the end, before digital took over.