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Dave sez: You need to sell a lot of tape in order to justify making it, you can celebrate us as a boutique market all you want but there is a bottom line at which point it becomes impossible and its irresponsible at this point to overlook that fact. You have a point, although I'm not sure what you m...

Oh, one more thing and I'll shut up, at least for a little while. It seems to me that half the problem is that we are living in an era when artist development is all but nonexistent. The music world is drowning in a sea of half-baked, quickie crap. There's so much junk out there that people may not ...

I gotta weigh in with the people who say that the tape market is by no means a wash. It's a boutique market waiting to happen. Think (as I believe I mentioned elsewhere) Edelbrock Carburetors, a company which is going strong on "obsolete" technology. Or Holley. Or Demon, a company which didn't even ...

I'm going to have to write Mike a letter to see if he needs any slave labor to run his coating machines. His shop is about 20 minutes from my house.... Tell me about it. If I lived any closer, I'd be right there. As it is, I'll just have to settle for a road trip. I'll probably buy a reel or two as...

What would I do with those? Secure the fate of my marriage.

Amen to the competition idea... if ATR is making tape and Quantegy gets back in it, that'll help keep a damper on overpricing. And it seems like a technology really does best when there are at least two versions of a thing kicking around. Things are usually just better when there is some kind of alt...

Ehh, well you've got a point about the 89 (I'm assuming you're going by the results at the top of the page, which is like 89 who use tape to like 12 who don't). A market consisting of 89 people is DEFINITELY a boutique market's boutique market. BUT, I'll bet that for every one person who has respond...

OK, I should specify that I believe this tape crisis is a serious situation, especially for those who make their bread and butter using analog equipment. I'm just assuming that, say, ATR or a reformed, leaner Quantegy will pick up the slack. Maybe that's a pretty big assumption, but I have a hard ti...

First posting. I've been set up with R2R for about a year, 1/4" 8-track. I have a small stash of Scotch 175 (1.5 mil), a reel of 201, something by BASF, and a decent stash of 456. I figured this whole tape-scare couldn't last, but I'm hoping prices don't go sky-high now.