MYSTERY Type II Audio Cassette Haul, some gems!
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- Browsing eBay as you do I found an awfully listed sale with poor photos and no detail. I took a gamble!
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05:30 'Love cats' by The Cure, I believe. And 'I'm not scared' by Patsy Kensit, written and produced by the Pet Shop Boys.
The old school TDK SA cassettes had a black shell, with gold foil labels, which always looked quite classy. As did their AD and AR cassettes. They also had good mechanisms, and rarely did the reels become stiff, unlike the TDK D cassettes, which were horrible.
Sony UX & UX-S cassettes were quite good too, as were the higher end Maxell cassettes.
I never liked Memorex, as they always sounded DUFF on most Japanese branded decks without bias adjust. And they seemed to lose what little top end they had after being played a few times.
My brother used Memorex Type 1's to do his bootleg copies of NTWICM compilations to sell at boot fairs back in the day, as Memorex were always the cheapest, and available in packs of 10 from the cash n carry.
Really nice score for 11 quid. I get stupidly excited going through mystery boxes of used tapes from ebay too. It's a voyage of discovery; usually some crud but hopefully some goodies. The Sonys are usually great, same for Fuji. The Boots CP were rebranded Maxell UDII I think, excellent tapes. And the Technics and Nakamichi are great for the collector value or just to look at. Little bits of history. Enjoy your recordings and thanks for the vids.
Hey thanks I appreciate it, I don't hold out a lot of hope for good recordings on the nakamichi and technics ones. But great for the shelf. The BBC ones are superb though, cheap and underrated. Not had a bad one yet!
You have just reminded me i have two shoeboxes full of cassettes from the 70,s and 80,s in my loft!
Who knows what will be in there!
Interesting I've done similar and came across some gems,it's also fun to re shell and make some unique Frankestein tapes.
That's a great idea!
You'll find a lot of it useful, but it takes time to sort it out
Dixon tape might well be made by agfa if you had the actual tape .The bbc tapes are good and like some of the bush tapes i believe they are made by skc .The boots cd2 they are superb tapes i got 9 from my dad a rebranded maxell tape .
Memorex was not cheap Remember I loved those tapes.
I've got a wedge of them on eBay for pennies, they've been there for months with no takers
Can you show how to adjust the azimuth next time?
Will do Terry thanks for the feedback!