Bulgarian Record and Tape Collector Has Serious Collection!

Michael Fremer visited a serious Bulgarian record and tape collector in March and shot this video.

Keep in mind that he lives in a seventh floor walk-up apartment! The Wilson Alexandria speakers weight around seven hundred pounds each and had to be hand-carried up seven sets of stairs!

Were there more time it might have been possible to pull records from some of the shelves and take a closer look at what was there, but time was short.

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Bob Levin's picture

I was in hysterics!
Love seeing well stocked collector pads.

rshak47's picture

the weight of all that vinyl? Was the floor reinforced to handle the load? I have a new found respect for Bulgarian construction techniques.

Seriously, however, thanks for the very enjoyable video.

kenkirk's picture

I can't wait to show this video to my wife! "You see honey, I don't have a problem! This guy has a problem, I just have a touch of the illness! "

Whats even more amazing is that we may be able to stream a collection of music like that that will be 95% as good as pure analog. I will always live and die analog, but digital is starting to get "good enough". Its always been about the music to me. How I get there doesn't matter. Tidal is pushing its way into my analog time. With my analog ( tape or vinyl ) sometimes I spend 5 or 10 mins just trying to find something that fits my mood. With Tidal, I pick a track and just start following the suggestions. I always discover something new just like I once did in record stores. But I would sure love to dig through that collection! Especially those tapes! And that Studer... yea he did it up right. Awesome!

Ken

cgh's picture

Either be prepared to lie with zero hesitation or know the answer when she asks if he's married.

Catcher10's picture

I'd love to know more about those tapes. Looks like he has a Teac X2000 deck. Hopefully Michael you can give us more info on the source of those tapes.

calle_jr's picture

Ja!
Saw Maggot Brain among those tapes.
That could be rubbish or really, really interesting.

vqworks's picture

The Teac Open-reel deck looks like either an X-2000R or X-2000M. The latter is the 1/2-track pro-sumer version that runs at 7 1/2 and 15 ips. The X-2000R and non-reversing X-2000 runs at 3 3/4 and 7 1/2 ips. In either case, the front panel fine bias adjustment, the EE (Extra Efficiency) tape capability and the dbx Type I NR gives it great sound. The X-2000M running on EE Tape at 15 ips is rated for a flat response to 40 kHz.

The Studer mastering open-reel decks look mouth-watering, too.

My vinyl and tape collection consist of a tiny portion of what is shown on the video. I have some DMM (Direct Metal Mastered) and dbx-encoded LPs (remember those?), too. My lone open-reel deck is the Akai GX-747dbx.

Catcher10's picture

I have a X2000R and yes hard to tell if the one in video is R or M. Best sounding tape deck I have owned.

I would love to know more about those tapes....And yea I saw that Maggot Brain. I am going to guess these are probably some bootleg copies of either digital files or vinyl rips.

But again, if they are not...Where can I get me some??

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