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Welcome to the Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording

MOMSR is dedicated to the preservation of the technology of sound recording and its impact on music, broadcasting, film/video and science. While most content deals with the history and manufacturers of the reel to reel tape recorder, or tape deck, we cover many aspects of magnetic recording.

In addition to the vintage technology, our Museum documents the significant individuals who invented, manufactured, engineered and produced audio creating the sounds in our lives!

Non-profit entity dissolved: In December 2017, after five years of working to create a permanent public non-profit museum, the Board decided we'd had given it our best effort and the non-profit was dissolved. Some of the significantly valuable vintage devices that had been donated to the Museum were purchased by the Theophilus permanent collection owners. Other donated items were sold to interested parties and the remaining funds donated to the non-profit "Swan Songs." The non-profit museum ceased to exist on December 31, 2017.

 

 

Thank you for visiting the Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording. We are in the process of consolidating 3 web sites and it will take some time. So as you look through our pages, you may find you're on a different domain. We are working to link these as best as we can while the construction is in the works.

Go to the primary MOMSR Home Page.


ACC Music Business, Performance & Technology Evolution Interview

ACC Music Business, Performance & Technology Evolution Interview  MOMSR presents the Evolution of the Austin Community College Music Business, Performance and Technology program   video link


Copper magazine MOMSR article

The Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording - Part 1 of 3 - J.I. Agnew visits  (added photos)

The Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording - Part 2 of 3 - J.I. Agnew visits  (added photos)

The Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording - Part 3 of 3 - J.I. Agnew visits  (added photos)

 


 

SBE Society of Broadcast Engineers interview of Martin Theophilus MOMSR

Martin's interview with the Society of Broadcast Engineers  Martin's interview with the Society of Broadcast Engineers  Martin's interview with the Society of Broadcast Engineers  Martin's interview with the Society of Broadcast Engineers 


Here's a pdf of photos taken of the MOMSR collection August, 2020


Our Ampex 200A #33 may now be seen on the third floor of the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin TexasView brief video

The 1948 reel tape recorder is on display with items from Asleep At The Wheel, Floyd Domino and George Strait.

MOMSR Ampex 200A on display at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum  MOMSR Ampex 200A on display at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum  Chris and Martin Theophilus with the  MOMSR Ampex 200A on display at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum

Studer A807 reel to reel tape rcorder with custom dust cover in the Reel2ReelTexas.com vintage reel tape recorder recording collection  Neumann U87 microphone in the Reel2ReelTexas.com vintage microphone and recording equipment collection  Technics RS-1700 reversing reel to reel tape recorder with the Altec Seville speaker in the reel2reeltexas.com - Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording vintage reel tape recorder recording collection  Sony/MCI JH-110, Sony APR 5003, Ampex ATR-100, Otari MX-5050 Otari MX5050 B2 HD reel to reel tape recorders in the reel2reeltexas.com - Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording vintage reel tape recorder recording collection

MOMSR is preserving sound recording history!

We offer a seven hour video set about our collection and the history of magnetic recording available at this link. You can purchase the seven hours files via download.

Proposded

Draft floor plan by Lloyd Cates prior MOMSR Board member - more

Raquel Torres' MOMSR interior design - more 2nd link

 

What is unique about our online sound recording museum?

• Over 100 + vintage (most are working) reel to reel tape recorders displayed with supporting memorabilia

• 125 + vintage microphones and numerous mixers and recording accessories

• Vintage documentation from the 1900's to the present including manuals, ads, catalogs and magazines

• Sound recording devices that include most of the US and many international manufacturers

• Some of the first magnetic tape recorders from Ampex, Brush, Magnecord, Sony, Studer and Teac

• Historical summaries and personal stories from the major international sound recording companies

Neumann, Shure, EV, RCA,Uher Sennheiser microphones  in the Reel2ReelTexas.com vintage reel tape recorder recording collection Otari, Tascam Fostex, Pioneer reel to reel tape recorders in the Reel2ReelTexas.com vintage reel tape recorder recording collection

 

Mic, acoustic and R2R Collection

Phantom Productions, Inc.'s Ampex 200-A on display at the Phantom studio

The first professional reel to reel tape recorder built in the United States in 1947 by Ampex who was backed by Bing Crosby.  The Ampex 200A recorder in our museum's collection originally belonged to Capitol Records. more

Extensive vintage archive

John Boyers one of the original founders of Magnecord in 1949

Magnecord SD-1 videomobile version

Interviews

Photo of Lisa Fletcher conducting a tour of Arlyn Studios.Photo is still from video shot for the Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording

go to interview list

 

A New Revox tape recorder?

 

   

view pdf

 

 

Revox building new reel to reel tape recorder

The transport is based on the Studer B-676. The electronics and heads are completely redesigned, based on professional mastering requirements.
The heads are the professional configuration used by both Studer and Telefunken—so-called "butterfly" heads. The heads are designed and built by the Horch House team in Bratislava, Slovakia. The target price for the playback-only machine is $4500. The new ReVox will cost about what a high performance MC cartridge costs! First live presentation was at The Rocky Mountain Audio Festival in October, 2016 with delivery first quarter 2017.

Update 12/20/19 Comment made by DCC on Audionirvana.org:

01-09-2018, 03:03 PM
When I met Volker Lange in Munich last year in May, I enquired about the project and the reply was very brief and evasive : « Wait. Next year... ». In the meantime, all references to the machine have dis ape a red from the website.


     

Recent Updates

Magnecord PJ-6 & amplifier donated by Dave Boyers

Ampex 1260

Berlant Concertone 20/20 manual

First reel to reel solid state amp prototype

Magencord 1020 /HeathKit AD-16

Magnasync/Moviola catalog

 

 

Tandberg Updated

Sony updated

RCA added

Ampex 200A updated

Bell & Howell

Ampex SA Belgium photos

Mellotron

New AEG FT4 photos

Altec 639A added to collection

New Brush Development from A.P.Dank

Expanded Magnecord section

1954 Ampex products catalog

Roberts 8 track conference recorder

 

Amp Corp Updated

Uher updated

Teac Series 50

Ampex ATR-124

Ampex history

Crowncorder audio ad

Eico

Ampex Museum

Nagra Sync

Dokorder

Expanded Roberts coverage

Foxtex history & models

Cassette recorders

 

Brush Development

Stories updates

Walkie-RecordALL photos

 

Quality control worker in the Roberts Recorder factory

My grandfather Alfred P. Dank worked for Brush-Clevite-Gould for his entire career 1931-1974. Mike Dank - more

 

Quality control worker in the Roberts Recorder factory

Roberts Recorder quality check factory in the1960's


Interesting Links

Tape is new vinyl • New R2R RecTape

Roberts Recorder founder patents hybrid car  in 1978

 

Our Museum's Tapesonic, Ampex Atr-100, Sony APR-5003, Sony/MCI JH-110, Ampex 601 and 620 Speaker, Webster Chicago 18--1 wire recorder , Concertone 707 and a BO Dynaco Beocord 2000 reel to reel tape recorder
Created in 2012, the Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording (MOMSR) was established to preserve the history of sound recording.

MOMSR profiles significant inventors, manufacturers, engineers, producers and artists who created and benefitted from the technology.

 

(left) Our Museum's Tapesonic Model 70-A, Ampex ATR-100, Sony APR-5003, Sony/MCI JH-110, Ampex 601 and 620 Speaker, Webster Chicago 18--1 wire recorder , Concertone 707 and a BO Dynaco Beocord 2000 reel to reel tape recorder

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MOMSR - documenting reel to reel tape recorder history since 1998

 

 

Tour our collection! 

We offer seven hours of 50 video segments via download about our reel to reel tape recorder and microphone collection and the history of magnetic recording available at this link.

ORDER THE VIDEO FILES ON LINE - was 14.95  NOW only $9.95

There are 50 QuickTime H264 854 X 480 files in this download.  Play on MAC OS or Windows Media Player

While most content deals with the history and manufacturers of the reel to reel tape recorder, or tape deck, we cover many aspects of magnetic recording.

We provide 48 hours during which to download the files. After that the file access will expire.  Once the files are downloaded they are yours to keep.

© 2018 Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording  •  Webmaster • All pictures and content on this web site are the property of the Theophilus family,the Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording and reel2reeltexas.com • Photos of items in our collection are available for sale. We do NOT provide copies of ads, nor photos from other sources! All photo work is billed at studio rates and a deposit is required.