Only 3 tapes with music I dislike.

B&O collection to big?

I'm not a reel to reel fan. It was cheap and I never had one so I got it.

Friedmett wrote:

 I'm not a reel to reel fan. It was cheap and I never had one so I got it.

Ah!  So you had to climb the mountain, just because it was nearby, and not too high.

Friedmett wrote:

I'm not a reel to reel fan.

Have you ever listend to a good reel to reel?   Sonically, to my ears, there's nothing like properly tuned reel to reel.

Even with frequency response far below other mediums, reel to reel (so long as they're properly tuned, and are prettecy decent to begin with in stock), they sound far superior to other mediums to my ears.

Well the price was around 20 US$ so why not? It was the first of 2 markets in my city and I had not really found anything either of interest that day. Then ad my experience of nothing/never heard to my knowledge + a B&O unit.

Comming home I was pleasantly surpriced to find the Beocord 1600 in perfect working order. The counter does not work but that's all.

 I got no real experience with reel to reel but I find the Beocord 1600 good enough. I'm just too biased with all the rest of my B&O collection so its more like another good sounding medium to use.

Wow!  That is a nice picture of Beocord reel to reel.   So far all the pictures of Beocord r2r looked kinda frumpy...kinda anti-B&O.

Your picture above makes it look sleek and modern.

There's an English fellow in youtube, called "Servington" or something like that who specializes in fixing vintage r2r.   He even had Beocord r2r on it, and the sound was fantastic.   Not exactly warm, but still, plenty spacy and airy, the kind of sound only r2r can provide.

The 1200 and 1600 do look good and are not bad tape recorders - high end domestic. The 2000 and 2400 are semi-professional though and a class above. A good tape recording is indistinguishable from the source. The 2400 is built to an incredible standard - think Beolab 5000 or Beogram 4000 and then think even better and heavier! Not as pretty though! This was mine!

Peter wrote:

The 1200 and 1600 do look good and are not bad tape recorders - high end domestic.

The English fellow in youtube had 1600 up to spec.   To my ears, the playback quality was better than the vaunted Tandberg 64 series.

More airy, spacy, and more detailed sound.

Compared to Revox E, F, G series, to my ears, it was different, but overall equal.    Less euphonic, or brighter than the Revox, but more detailed, better separation.

Btw.  The English fellow has both F, G series Revox, and Beocord 1600 on youtube so I could compare their sound more or less consistently.

Besides, he commented how surprised he was at the sound quality of Beocord 1600.

Peter wrote:

The 2000 and 2400 are semi-professional though and a class above. A good tape recording is indistinguishable from the source. The 2400 is built to an incredible standard - think Beolab 5000 or Beogram 4000 and then think even better and heavier!

Well, the sound quality must be awesome.  

Peter wrote:

Not as pretty though! This was mine!

Lucky man, if you ever want to sell it, please let me know.   I think one way shipping to U.S. should be about 77 pounds? at today's exchange rate?

I'm trying to get a hold of Beocord 2000 from consignment store in the states for $50, but no response yet.  I don't know whether it's functioning, much less up to specs.