Our Products

ATAE builds state-of-the-art analog audio tape reproducers (dedicated playback platforms) that deliver the uncompromised audio quality demanded by top professionals working with high-value original master tapes.

Critical listeners hear a noticeable, sometimes dramatic sound quality improvement on master tape playback, but far more importantly our reproducers are carefully engineered to ensure that tapes are subjected to the least possible mechanical stress and wear during playback. (See our Technology page.)

Based on acclaimed Studer A80 and A820 tape transport mechanisms expertly and exactingly re-manufactured by us in our facility, ATAE reproducers are sold as new with warranty.

Our Founder

Director of Engineering, Adolph Friederich (Fred) Thal, is a recognized expert on analog magnetic tape transport design and Studer tape machines. He founded ATAE in 1987. Fred has worked for National Public Radio, the University of California, Inovonics, Otari and Studer.