On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 21:48:31 +0000, J. P. Morris wrote:

Here's a question for the reel-to-reel gurus.
As far as I can see this AIWA TP1011 is an ordinary domestic 2 or 4-track.
It doesn't even appear to be valve-based:

http://cgi.ebay.com/VGC-AIWA-3-HEAD-...cm dZViewItem

..yet it has gone for $7900, which is probably about ten times its original
price, if that. Now normally I'd say that the two zero-bidders were
shills, but the guy who made the final purchase seems to have a good
history.


Wow!!

With all of the Tascam/Teac/Peavey/A.R.T and Alesis *collectable* gear I
have laying around, I am going to be a millionaire in a couple of weeks!!!


Have they simply lost their hold on reality or are these machines valuable
in some mysterious way?

Offshore/possibly onshore money laundering mill.
That's my guess.

flatfish+++

P.S. For those of you who missed the sarcasm, in this case *collectable*
means junk....
Not that most of it isn't useful,
but..........................................