The Audiophile Society

Taking the analog experience as far as it can go

 

For those who love analog, our Master Reference Tape Series offers our recordings on 15 IPS reel-to-reel tape, made directly from our master files.

Tape offers analog playback without the clicks, pops and surface noise of vinyl. It has a wonderful sense of body, space and dimensionality—and even the subtle, uncorrelated noise inherent in analog tape may contribute to our perception of ambience and three-dimensional space.

But tape is also about how we listen.

Thread the machine. Press play. Sit down. Listen.

There is no shuffle and no jumping from track to track. Tape brings back the experience of listening to an album as a complete musical event.

Each Master Reference Tape is produced in very limited quantities, creating something increasingly rare in the age of streaming: a physical edition of the recording that is both an exceptional playback format and something special to own.

For the listener who wants to take the analog experience as far as it can go.