Panasonic RQ705 Reel To Reel and an old news tape

[GEWildcatRocks]

I used to have one since I was a youngster, and this was first reel-to-reel tape recorder I owned since I was 11 years old. I got rid of it since it was not working at all.

[DaAnalogDogg86]

Very cool machine!

[6452ss]

The music sounds nice in the background with the person speaking

[SpeakerFreak95]

sounds really good, original capacitors?

[Maxxarcade]

@SpeakerFreak95 Yep, looked all original to me.

[SpeakerFreak95]

@Maxxarcade what size speaker?

[Maxxarcade]

@SpeakerFreak95 I think it has a 4x6 Alnico in it.

[SpeakerFreak95]

@Maxxarcade thought it was, has that "vintage" tone. do you want to sell the art-deco panasonic speakers? PM me.

[Maxxarcade]

@SpeakerFreak95 Those are already sold.

[SpeakerFreak95]

@Maxxarcade dang, bummer, a real bummer, well, how much did you get from them.

[OlegKostoglatov]

That sounds like a bit of crossover, if happens due to head alignment, the organ music may have been recorded on a different machine from the Panasonic so the heads don't line up. Normally 1/4 inch reel to reel machines record on four tracks but the tracks are staggered to seperate the channels, so it doesn't take much of a misalligment to end up with cross talk.

[james42519]

would be nice to hear all of this.

[727JeffN]

Interesting tape!

[CassetteMaster]

Very nice recorder.

[uxwbill]

That is a really neat find. It sounds pretty good for its age and condition, and the machine itself looks nearly new.

[RetroPCDOS]

To bad someone recorded over it, because that tape is actually rare and would have been interesting to hear the whole tape

[uxwbill]

@RetroPCDOS It sounds to me like the original audio could be recovered perfectly by playing it on a machine capable of selecting different tracks to be played. I would guess that it was recorded on a different machine than the Panasonic shown here.

[RetroPCDOS]

@uxwbill

I was thinking the same thing, that might have been recorded on one track, wonder if you play it on a stereo deck, you can isolate it to one channel or will it bleed over?

[QuadroNVS]

wow that the tape that tells what happened in 1945 from pearl harbor

[torythefanman]

that a cool old reel to reel

[psychoclown420]

i love those old school narrator's voices, so epic.

[ihatespam1977]

The first chinese nuclear test was on October 16, 1964, so the tape probably dates shortly after that time.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Very nice tape recorder.

[222Panther222]

The tape with japan nuclear at the beginning is maybe rare.

[Blueblur444]

That's a sweet find man

[TheComputerNerd0101]

cool :D