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Pics of your Favorite Cassette Tapes
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Daren, all the latest tapes and the pics are superb but that LH from BASF touch me directly in the heart, i know it's not the most desirable tape regarding the sounding but look at it, simply superb and so robust design 
You know what? I virtually ignored all of BASF's tapes at the time. It wasn't until much later that I began to appreciate them.
Also, I think a good-looking cassette makes a difference. I don't really care if it is the best in its class or not. Looks do matter!
Wow, those old cassettes looks like coming from the wrapper, lucky you having them Daren. 
I was in a secondhand record shop the other day and they still had plenty of prerecorded tapes for sale that dated from the 1970s onwards. Some of them looked in pretty good shape.
No sealed blanks though.
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I have about a box of each of those styles of BASF, and yes, I am choosy when it comes to using them. Both BASF and Maxell are my top 2 flavors of cassettes.
I dont really hunt for specific tapes. Rather just grab the ones I see, when I see them. That being said, there is one particular tape that has eluded me over the years and that is Maxell MX. I prefer the looks of the oval window style, but if I ran across any MX or Maxell metal's they would definitely be coming home with me.
I dont really hunt for specific tapes. Rather just grab the ones I see, when I see them. That being said, there is one particular tape that has eluded me over the years and that is Maxell MX. I prefer the looks of the oval window style, but if I ran across any MX or Maxell metal's they would definitely be coming home with me.
That is a very attractive cassette.
You have some really nice tapes.
I did have one of those MX oval shells in C100 form quite recently but traded it for something else. I have not seen too many Maxell MX blanks on eBay over here in the last few years.
Neat. I don't recall coming across this type IV before.
You have some really nice tapes.
I did have one of those MX oval shells in C100 form quite recently but traded it for something else. I have not seen too many Maxell MX blanks on eBay over here in the last few years.
Neat. I don't recall coming across this type IV before.
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Wow, quite a number of good BASF cassettes shown! When my Esoteric V-9000 went in for a minor service at Innovative Audio, Brian, the technician there, requested three NOS tapes of mine for doing internal calibrations to the tapes I regularly use for recordiing. For Type 1, I chose the Sony GIG-1, Type II, I chose the BASF Chrome Extra II, and for Type IV, I chose the Sony Metal XR.
My deck jammed a tape during one of the TH Travelling Tape projects. It was the first time that a tape has ever done that on any of my old decks. It was the last part of Istvan's (close652) recording I had been listening to when the tape stopped. Brian, at IA, spliced the tape, inserted the works into another shell, and no recorded material was lost. My deck needed a new capstan and load belt and the idler tire needed resurfacing. This occurred after the big Casette Deck Shootout at IA last year. My deck is even better, now, and ready for another Shootout.
I did find a few more cassettes at IA while there, yesterday.
Nando.
My deck jammed a tape during one of the TH Travelling Tape projects. It was the first time that a tape has ever done that on any of my old decks. It was the last part of Istvan's (close652) recording I had been listening to when the tape stopped. Brian, at IA, spliced the tape, inserted the works into another shell, and no recorded material was lost. My deck needed a new capstan and load belt and the idler tire needed resurfacing. This occurred after the big Casette Deck Shootout at IA last year. My deck is even better, now, and ready for another Shootout.
I did find a few more cassettes at IA while there, yesterday.
Nando.