It looked as if teaching and writing more novels, stories, reviews, and scripts was going to be my life. At the same time I taught creative writing at a couple of universities and worked brief stints in Hollywood. Throughout the 80s and 90s, I wrote eleven novels and many stories-some of which were nominated for (and won) prizes, one of which was made into a not-very-good movie by Paramount, and all of which are still available hardbound and via download on Amazon. I’ve been a creative writer for most of life. Like my other Golden Ears, the Metaxas & Sins Tourbillon T-RX will also be a nominee for TAS’ annual Product of the Year Awards-and this one would be a Product of the Year in any decade, past or present. It is the very quintessence of neutrality and completeness-those twin household audio gods that make ersatz sound like real.Īlongside the UHA SuperDeck, the Metaxas Tourbillon T-RX is the highest fidelity audio component I’ve auditioned, consistently making the musicians on well-recorded tapes into near-visible presences and music sound as you hear it in life. I’ve also heard just about every iteration of Greg Beron’s marvelous United Home Audio Tascams, and (except for Greg’s latest, ultra-expensive SuperDeck), not a one of them outdoes the Tourbillon. I’ve heard a lot of tape decks over the years-from huge studio Ampexes and Studers to smaller-scale gems made by Nagra, ReVox, Otari, etc. Over and above its astonishingly “cool” looks, the Tourbillon T-RX is a sonic wonder. ![]() It’ll do that-at 7½, 15, or 30ips-entirely on its own. But unlike the Stellavox SP-8, the Metaxas Tourbillon T-RX does not require adaptors to play ten-inch reels. ![]() Like the original, the T-RX is a portable unit, easily moved (in its dedicated carrying case) from your room to a recording venue or to a fellow audiophile’s digs. It is a brand-new deck in a drop-dead gorgeous aluminum chassis that uses the best possible parts in circuits designed, updated, and configured (with Stellavox’s Georges Quellet’s blessings, BTW) by Kostas Metaxas on the basis of his nearly 40 years of recording experience with the SP-7/8. Unlike just about every other tape deck currently sold, Kostas Metaxas’ re-do of the great Stellavox SP-8 is not a refurbished unit from the Golden Age of tape recording. ![]() Metaxas & Sins Tourbillon T-RX Reel-to-Reel Tape Deck $36,000
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