Sound, now and then

 1972 HiFi system

Back in the 60-ies the stereosound was developed to its full extend.  

Sonab REcordplayer

Record players and their pickups became state of the art tools for transforming the sound of a record into HiFi music sound. 

AKAI M9 taperecorder from the late 60-ies.

Reel to reel taperecorders became standard giving the same quality as the records.  

SONAB casett recorder

Unfortinutly those RR taperecorders was somehow a problem for the average customer, instead we did get the casettape and their recording equipment. With a soundquality far lower then the RR recorders. 

In the mid 60-ies even the Beatles recorded the Sgt Pepper using a simple 4-track reel to reel recorder. 

TEAC 4-track reel to reel recorder 70-ies

In hope to get my songs sound a bit like from the 60ies I went out in hope to find a second hand old taperecorder.  It soon proved to be easy and after a bidding on Swedish ebay-Tradera I became the new owner of a 1969 Sony TC230 taperecorder.

1969 SONY TC230 reel to reel recorder.

Bringing it home I gave the old recorder a proper service and found a tape. It showed no traces of its age and the sound quality was exellent. Making a master recording from the Audacity computer program made the digital sound into a new dimension. 

With only one tape to go We went to a fleamarket today where I found at the cost of 4,oo£ , 10pi of 7" tapereels. Took em home and soon the room was filled with music recorded more the  30 years ago!! Still with an exellent sound quality. To be compared with a load of CD records less then 5 years old that alread seam to have lost their information and therefor is impossible to listen to.

News tells that the grammophone industri once again is making old vinyl LP records, possibly caused by the fact that more then 30 year old records still can be played and enjoyed with perfect sound quality.

As far as I do understand the analog sound systems still is very much alive.