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Convert your standard ReVox B77/PR99 into a well performing ‘Tape Project’ machine (Rev 2). Arian Jansen. Updated: March 31, 2008 (PR99 mkII and PR99 mkIII temporarily removed from this document.) Last year Paul Stubblebine, Dan Schmalle and Michael Romanowski, all gentlemen with a good reputation in the recording industry started an initiative called ‘The Tape Project’. The purpose of this initiative is to make second generation very high quality reel to reel tape copies of great analog recordings available to the public. For more details on the initiative and the available titles visit the website of ‘The Tape Project’ ( ). The albums made available by the Tape Project come on two 10.5” reels of ¼” tape that are recorded in 2 tracks at 15ips using an IEC (CCIR) equalization curve. These parameters were purely chosen to get the very best audio performance possible. I have to say that the result is absolutely stunning and these Tape Project albums really constitute the ‘ultimate analog’ when played on a high end reel to reel play back system. Although the last consumer reel to reel recorder came off the production lines years ago, there are still plenty of them around. However, since the reel size that the tape deck must be able to handle has to be 10.5”, the majority of those decks are not suitable. The requirement for 2 tracks instead of the more common 4 tracks again takes away the majority of the available decks. 15ips reduces the number of candidates even further and finally the requirement for an IEC EQ cuts most of the candidates that were left. If after this deduction you still have some enthusiasm left, let me add that most of the candidate decks left were made in the late 70’s and early 80’s which was a pretty sad era for high end audio, mainly because of the questionable design philosophies of the electronics at that time. That means that many of the reel to reels from those days sound pretty disappointing. So does that mean t