Memories of Miss Memory

How sad! This really marks the end of a beautiful era, and the beginning of analogue tape machines as museum relics. The gear junkie inside of me is starting to wonder how much this news will affect the cost of buying a reel to reel deck and whether its worth getting one before…argh! stop me!!!!

http://www.gearwire.com/quantegy-ends-tape-sales.html

“One of the last remaining manufacturers of magnetic recording tape for analog tape decks announced they would be discontinuing the sale of open-reel magnetic tape products. Quantegy, formerly Ampex, announced the discontinuation of open-reel tape products on its website and in memos to its distributors this week.”