A change of heart?

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Looks like someone is opting out of the Tape Project. The seller has listed his J-Corder Technics reel, Bottlehead Repro, associated gear and three series of tapes for sale. May be a good way to acquire the complete set of Tape Project reels and a machine for in one convenient move.
http://www.canuckaudiomart.com/deta...epro_tape_project_masters_reel_2_reel_system/

 

[flez007]

Fair pricing...

 

[Johnny Vinyl]

Where's that Lottery Win when I really need it!

 

[microstrip]

Fair pricing...

It only shows that analog is a much more solid value than digital! Its devaluation is around 20% - any used digital equipment always carries a devaluation over 50%.

IMHO the price is too high, unless it is considered rare or collectible. Are all Tapeproject tables sold out? As far as I know they only had a limited number of licenses on some tapes and they can not re-issue them.

 

[flez007]

It only shows that analog is a much more solid value than digital! Its devaluation is around 20% - any used digital equipment always carries a devaluation over 50%.

IMHO the price is too high, unless it is considered rare or collectible. Are all Tapeproject tables sold out? As far as I know they only had a limited number of licenses on some tapes and they can not re-issue them.

Yeap, there are some series 1 titles that are just gone, I just got 9 out of 10 titles, series 3 are still in production/delivery stage.

 

[Bruce B]

Only $3995 for a J-Corder deck? He must not be doing anything to them but making them pretty...

 

[microstrip]

Yeap, there are some series 1 titles that are just gone, I just got 9 out of 10 titles, series 3 are still in production/delivery stage.

Do you know whose are gone? It seems I must put them in a safe!

 

[mep]

Fair pricing...

LOL! I thought it was $1500 at first and I was going to hit the buy button. $15K, I don't think so.

 

[flez007]

LOL! I thought it was $1500 at first and I was going to hit the buy button. $15K, I don't think so.

Mark - the TP series are 9kusd alone

 

[flez007]

Do you know whose are gone? It seems I must put them in a safe!

Bad news!, there are now FIVE out-of-print titles for series 1, check Dan's page:
http://www.tapeproject.com/catalog/catalog.htm

 

[Bruce B]

Bad news!, there are now FIVE out-of-print titles for series 1, check Dan's page:

It's pretty bad when you can't even sell 200 copies

 

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It's pretty bad when you can't even sell 200 copies

Bruce I've seen one title numbered 232. The licensing agreement may allow for a certain time period as well.

 

[mep]

Bruce I've seen one title numbered 232. The licensing agreement may allow for a certain time period as well.

Interesting as Dan has said several times they are only licensed to make 200 copies of each title.

 

[rbbert]

Only $3995 for a J-Corder deck? He must not be doing anything to them but making them pretty...

If you add in the options he chose it's actually more. When I last talked with J-Corder the $4k price was just for bringing the deck up to spec and replacing the play head.

 

[Bruce B]

Interesting as Dan has said several times they are only licensed to make 200 copies of each title.

I've been seriously thinking about getting into releasing tape but if I can't guarantee sales of 500 pcs. then it's a non-issue. I've run the figures and presented a business plan twice, but with licensing of the more mainstream titles it's a money pit.

 

[andromedaaudio]

Well if you ever do here is a suggestion i bet indeed it costs a lot of money to get copies

http://www.thestar.co.uk/community/the-diary/a-deep-dark-secret-1-4915939

 

[Bruce B]

Well if you ever do here is a suggestion i bet indeed it costs a lot of money to get copies



http://www.thestar.co.uk/community/the-diary/a-deep-dark-secret-1-4915939

Too bad the tapes are being stored incorrectly.

 

[andromedaaudio]

Indeed strange story , but i dont know what to think of this , even stranger , producers get your hands on these before they are destroyed

http://www.audioprointernational.co...der-threat-from-dublin-studio-expansion/05689

and ac dc metallica

http://www.triplem.com.au/sydney/mu...c-and-metallica-master-tapes-to-be-destroyed/