THE SOUND OF TAPE — COMPLETE 111 AUDIOPHILE REEL TAPE REVIEWS
MUSIC COLLECTOR’S REFERENCE GUIDE
For reel-to-reel collectors, audiophiles and analogue music lovers, here is our easy-reference on reel tape has been published, based on 111 reviewed reel tape releases.
⭐ = The Sound of Tape Highlight
🎵 = Music rating
🔊 = Sound rating
🏆 = The Sound of Tape Collector Rating
THE SOUND OF TAPE - THE TAPE ENTRY
001 • Hugh Masekela — Hope ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
002 • André Rabini — A Lazy Afternoon
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
003 • Hans Theessink — Slow Train
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
004 • Linda Sharrock — Confessions
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
005 • Puschnig / Sharrock — Late Night Show Part I + Part II
🎵 3-4-5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★½
006 • Paul Kuhn Trio — Live At Birdland
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 3-4-5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★½
007 • Juan Garcia-Herreros — Snow Owl Quartet
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
008 • Friedrich Storfinger — A British Organ Festival
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
009 • Various — Auf den Flügeln des Gesanges
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
010 • Fats Jazz Band — That Old Feeling
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
011 • Franz Schubert — Sinfonien 1 & 8 ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
012 • Muthspiel — Real Book Stories
🎵 4/5 • 🔊 4.5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★
013 • Tommy Schneider & Friends — The Best Of ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
014 • Rava, Fresu, Bollani, Pietropaoli, Gatto — Shades Of Chet
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
015 • Various — Opern-Gala
🎵 4.5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
016 • Mozart — Requiem
🎵 4.5/5 • 🔊 4.5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★½
017 • Margriet Sjoerdsma — A Tribute To Eva Cassidy
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
018 • Great Voices Vol. 1 — Sampler
🎵 4.5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
019 • Fink — Studio Live Session ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
020 • Rene Bishop — The Perfect Gentleman
🎵 4.5/5 • 🔊 4.5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★½
021 • Gershwin / Bernstein — Rhapsody in Blue / An American In Paris ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
022 • The Rosenberg with Tim Kliphuis — Live
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
023 • Norah Jones — Come Away With Me
🎵 4.5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
024 • Oistrach — Bach / Vivaldi
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
025 • Inga Rumpf — White Horses
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
026 • Glenn Gould — Bach Italian ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
027 • Great Cover Versions — Sampler ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
028 • Anika Nilles — Studio Live Session
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 4.5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
029 • Monty Alexander — Live At Montreux
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
030 • Eric Bibb & Needed Time — Good Stuff
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
031 • Sabina Hank — Blue Moments
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 4/5 • 🏆 ★★★★½
032 • Calling Cadence — Calling Cadence
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
033 • Saint-Saëns / Boston Symphony / Munch — Symphony No. 3
🎵 4/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★½
034 • McLaughlin / Di Meola / De Lucia — Saturday Night in San Francisco ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
035 • Various — Sommernachtsträume
🎵 4.5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
036 • The Count Basie Orchestra — High Voltage ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
037 • The Monsters — Masks
🎵 4.5/5 • 🔊 4/5 • 🏆 ★★★★
038 • Richard Koch Quartett — Fluss
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
039–045 • Jazz On Vinyl Series
Seven audiophile releases spanning approximately ★★★★ to ★★★★★.
046 • Tommy Schneider & Friends — Plan B3
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
047 • Beethoven — Eroica / Edmond Ouvertüre ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
048 • U. Fiorentino & C. Quartarone — Anamorfosi
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
049 • Alessandro Bianchini — 10/5
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
050 • Reema — The Lowswing Sessions
🎵 4.5/5 • 🔊 4/5 • 🏆 ★★★★
051 • Gloria Steward — Jazz for Dancing ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
052 • Tommy Schneider & Friends — The Hidden Port ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
053 • Rimsky-Korsakov / Fritz Reiner — Scheherazade
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
054 • Tony Scott And The Indonesian Allstars — Djanger Bali
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
055 • U. Fiorentino & C. Quartarone — II
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
056 • Alice Cooper — Live From Astroturf
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 4/5 • 🏆 ★★★★½
057 • Nouvelle Cuisine — Mozart Revisited
🎵 4.5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
058 • Djabe & Steve Hackett — Carpet Crawlers
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
059 • Martin Vatter — Homeland ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
060 • Modest Mussorgski — Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on Bald Mountain ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
061 • Antonín Dvořák / Rafael Kubelík — Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
062 • Jens Düppe Quartett — Jazz on Vinyl Vol. 8: Ten Years
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
063 • Patrick Bebelaar — Jazz on Vinyl Vol. 9: How Insensitive
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
064 • Yello — Stella ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
065 • Simon Phillips — Studio Live Session
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
066 • Djabe — Art In Tone
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
067–068 • Jazz Sampler Number One & Two
🎵 4.5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
069 • Mark Colby Quartet — Mark Colby Quartet
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
070 • Sasha Mashin — Happy Run ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
071 • John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat — Hooker ’n Heat ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
072 • Sarah Vaughan — Live at the Berlin Philharmonie 1969
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 4.5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
073 • Great Ballads — Sampler
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
074 • Ellis Mano Band — A Lifetime I Want You Back
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
075 • Jerome Sabbagh — Heart
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
076 • Getz / Gilberto — Stan Getz / João Gilberto ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
077 • Jazz At The Pawnshop — Late Night ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
078 • Might Of Coincidence — Spectrum Of Life
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
079 • Chlöisu Fiedli — Studio Sessions Herbst 1980 – April 1981
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
080 • Djabe — Legacy
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
081 • Horatio Parker — Konzert für Orgel und Orchester es-Moll op. 55 ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
082 • Johanna Martzy — Sonatas from Ravel and Brahms
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
083 • Yello — One Second ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
084 • Catherine Russell — The Studio47 Sessions ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
085 • Big Pete Pearson — Born In An Apple Box
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 3.5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★
086 • Mulo Francel / Tim Collins — Pure Tape Recording ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
087 • Böe — Pure Tape Recording
🎵 4/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★½
088 • Incognito — Studio Live Session
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
089 • Alice Cooper — Paranormal
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
090 • Djabe & Steve Hackett — When The Sound Turns Sweet
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
091 • Al Di Meola — One Of These Nights – Part 1
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
092 • Andy LaVerne Piano Trio — Legend
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
093 • Southern Comfort — Homesick
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
094 • KA MA Quartet feat. Nippy Noya — A Love Supreme (Suite)
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
095 • Gruberich — LAUSCH | GROOVE | STRING
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
096 • NAGRA — 70th Anniversary Collection
🎵 4.5/5 • 🔊 4/5 • 🏆 ★★★★
097 • Miles Davis — Sketches of Spain ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
098 • J.S. Bach — Series F Organ Works
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
099 • Lyn Stanley — Tribute to 1924 ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
100 • The Blues Company — Ain’t Nothin’ But …
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
101 • Quadro Nuevo — Pure Tape Recording
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
102 • Jerome Sabbagh — Stand Up!
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
103 • Elgar — Cello Concerto & Sea Pictures ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
104 • Akkordeon-Orchester Altenessen — Akkordeon-Orchester Altenessen
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
105 • Hans Theessink — Hard Road Blues
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
106 • Reverend Beat Man & Milan Slick — Death Crossed The Street
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
107 • Frédéric Chopin / Rubinstein — The Nocturnes ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
108 • Czerwiński / Oleszkiewicz / Wądołowski — Song For My Mother
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
109 • Stockfisch — Analog Crossroads
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
110 • Sonny Rollins — Saxophone Colossus
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
111 • Hans Theessink & Terry Evans — The Analog Session Vienna ⭐
🎵 5/5 • 🔊 5/5 • 🏆 ★★★★★
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🎞️ THE SOUND OF TAPE HIGHLIGHTS
Some especially notable collector choices from this reference include:
⭐ Hugh Masekela — Hope
⭐ Franz Schubert — Sinfonien 1 & 8
⭐ Fink — Studio Live Session
⭐ Gershwin / Bernstein — Rhapsody in Blue / An American In Paris
⭐ Glenn Gould — Bach Italian
⭐ McLaughlin / Di Meola / De Lucia — Saturday Night in San Francisco
⭐ Count Basie Orchestra — High Voltage
⭐ Beethoven — Eroica
⭐ Yello — Stella
⭐ John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat — Hooker ’n Heat
⭐ Getz / Gilberto
⭐ Jazz At The Pawnshop — Late Night
⭐ Yello — One Second
⭐ Catherine Russell — The Studio47 Sessions
⭐ Miles Davis — Sketches of Spain
⭐ Lyn Stanley — Tribute to 1924
⭐ Elgar — Cello Concerto & Sea Pictures
⭐ Chopin / Rubinstein — The Nocturnes
⭐ Hans Theessink & Terry Evans — The Analog Session Vienna
🎧 COLLECTOR QUESTION
Which five tapes from this list would make your ultimate reel-to-reel collection?
Which release deserves the title:
🏆 GREATEST-SOUNDING REEL TAPE OF ALL TIME?
Share your choices, photographs and listening experiences in the comments.
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