Goodbye DAT Machine

I've decided to sell my DAT machine. Any of you actually know what that is?

I had this for 14 years. Farewell vintage high end audio recording machine

DAT stands for Digital Audio Tape recorder. They were big the 80's and 90's for making pristine clear digital recordings - my Dad gave me this one to record my compositions and arrangements while at WAAPA. With a decent microphone I recorded a whole bunch of music over 4 years or so.


Nowadays, DAT has become seriously obsolete - replaced by hard disk recording (IE recording onto your laptop or computer). You have a lot more options recording onto a computer that DAT simply doesn't offer, and the recording quality is on par or better. Consequently, DAT machines are no longer made. I have probably used my DAT 2 times in the last 5 years - it has been sitting there taking up space.

It feels a bit weird to sell it off though, so many memories recording my musical adolescence on it. And I only got $100 for it on eBay, almost seems worth enough to keep it for that price - the shipping will cost more than the unit!


Anyway. I do hope it's going to a good home, eBay member 'ogmha' better look after it ;)