For years, RX Reels has focused on one thing: elevating the reel-to-reel listening experience.
Our reels, hubs, boxes, accessories, and restoration-focused products were created for listeners who believe reel-to-reel is not simply a nostalgic format. At its best, reel-to-reel remains one of the most direct, emotionally revealing, and musically complete ways to experience recorded sound.
That belief has guided everything we have built.
Now, for the first time, RX Reels is expanding beyond accessories.
RX Reels will now offer music on reel-to-reel tape.
And not just any music.
We are proud to announce a strategic affiliate partnership with Stella Records, beginning with one of the most extraordinary new tape releases available today:
Andrea Bocelli — A Night of Amazing Grace
A live-to-tape master recording, available as a limited-edition master tape copy.
Most audiophiles already understand what tape can do.
You know the way reel-to-reel handles harmonic density, spatial scale, transient rise, decay, timbre, and micro-dynamics. You know the difference between a recording that has been processed, compressed, converted, and reassembled — and one that captures a real performance in real time.
That is what makes this release so meaningful.
This is not a digital recording transferred to tape after the fact.
It is not analog “flavor” applied to a digital source.
It is not a file printed onto tape for presentation.
This is a live performance captured straight to tape.
For the listener, that changes everything.
A great reel-to-reel deck deserves great source material. Until recently, that often meant searching for vintage tapes, archival releases, or used copies from an earlier era. Stella Records is helping create something different: new world-class performances recorded with reel-to-reel tape as the original medium.
That is the part that matters.
This is not simply music on tape.
This is music born on tape.
Stella Records is one of the few modern recording companies making reel-to-reel tape central to the recording process itself.
Their work is built around a simple but demanding idea: bring exceptional artists into a carefully controlled analog studio environment, capture the performance in real time, and preserve the musical event through a master tape chain designed for serious listeners and collectors.
That means obsessive attention to the details that matter:
microphone selection
placement
analog gain staging
tape formulation
deck calibration
signal path integrity
mastering choices
copy quality
Every decision is made in service of one goal: to reduce the distance between the performance and the listener.
For reel-to-reel collectors, that is the point.
The format is not just about owning vintage recordings. It is about preserving the most direct possible connection to a performance.
Stella Records is helping make reel-to-reel a living studio medium again.
For years, customers have asked us a simple question:
“When will RX Reels offer actual music on tape?”
We waited.
We waited because the fit had to be right.
The recordings had to be worthy.
The artists had to matter.
The recording chain had to be authentic.
The quality had to align with what RX Reels stands for.
With Stella Records, that standard is finally met.
This partnership is a natural extension of our mission. RX Reels has always focused on helping people get more from their decks, their systems, and their listening rooms. Offering carefully selected master tape releases completes that experience.
Playback matters.
But so does the source.
You should be able to own the reel that deserves your deck.
Andrea Bocelli is not simply a singer.
He is an instrument of emotion.
His voice carries power, delicacy, breath, texture, and presence in a way that makes the recording medium unusually important. With a voice like Bocelli’s, the smallest details matter: the air around the note, the rise of the phrase, the decay of the room, the way dynamics build without losing intimacy.
That is exactly where tape excels.
Digital can capture detail.
Vinyl can create beauty.
But tape has a way of preserving scale, warmth, and immediacy that feels remarkably close to the source.
A Night of Amazing Grace gives reel-to-reel listeners a rare opportunity: to hear one of the world’s great tenor voices captured through a true analog recording chain and preserved as a master tape copy.
Not as a stream.
Not as a pressed disc.
Not as a digitally edited studio product.
As a live performance committed to magnetic tape.
The Andrea Bocelli A Night of Amazing Grace master tape copy is available in extremely limited quantities.
Only 250 sets will be produced.
This is not a mass-market music release. It is a collector-grade tape offering for serious reel-to-reel listeners, audiophiles, and music lovers who understand the significance of the format.
Andrea Bocelli — A Night of Amazing Grace
Master Tape Copy
Price: $995
This release also supports a cause that matters, with proceeds supporting cancer research.
For RX Reels, that makes this partnership even more meaningful: extraordinary music, captured through a pure analog process, offered to a small group of collectors, while supporting important work beyond the listening room.
There were two moments in music history when “straight to tape” truly mattered.
The first was before digital became the standard.
The second is happening now.
Reel-to-reel is not coming back because people want nostalgia. It is coming back because a growing number of serious listeners are rediscovering what the best analog recording chain can still do better than anything else.
The future of reel-to-reel will include restored decks, better accessories, better education, better service, and better source material.
That is the future RX Reels wants to help build.
We are proud to begin this next chapter with Stella Records and Andrea Bocelli’s A Night of Amazing Grace.
Click here to purchase the Andrea Bocelli master tape copy.
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RX Reels subscribers will be notified first as new Stella Records releases become available.
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