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018: Fuji DR-I Comparison!
Fuji made camera film, video tapes, and audio cassettes in the 1980-90's. The DR-I's were some solid recording Type-I's available in 1991 and 1996. We'll take a look at a few here.
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017: Sony UX-Pro Comparison!
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Sony UX-Pros are high-quality Type II cassettes. These were made in the mid-1980's and probably early 90's. In this video, we compare two cassettes from two generations. As always, thanks to the wonderful vintagecassettes.com for historical info.
016: BASF Ferro Extra 60 (1991)
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This fairly cheap BASF would have been a great, cheap tape for recording voice or lo-fi music back in the day. Music: "Beyond Memory" by NINA - bit.ly/3ljKnSM As always, thank you to the wonderful vintagecassettes.com
015: JVC GI (1990)
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Did you know JVC made audio cassettes and not just video ones? Me neither.
014: Sony HF-S (1986)
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Unboxing a vintage Sony HF-S blank tape from 1986. These are my faves of all the blank tapes I own.
013: Sony Blank Cassette Collection from 1986-87
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This is a near-complete US set of sealed Sony blank cassettes from 1986-87. All I'm missing is the Metal Master!
012: Sony Metal-ES (1986)
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One of my Grails of blank cassette tapes. Couldn't wait to share this. The Metal series (along with the Metals Masters) would have been expensive then, and they are astronomical now. The highest-tier tape, you couldn't get a better recording than on this.
011: Recoton R-Tape UX90 (1990)
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This is one weird, cheap tape.
010: TDK SA90 (1993)
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Decent Type-II tape from the early 90's - CDs were starting to take hold, and TDK's packaging reflects that these (Type-II's) were good for recording from CDs.
009: Memorex HBS II 110 (1993)
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A higher-end Type II Memorex, this HBS would have been a great cheap tape to record some music on to and would have sounded pretty great on chrome.
008: Sony CD-It (1998)
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One of my favorites from my childhood, the Sony CD-It series was an attempt to get people to still record their own mixtapes, or convert CD's to tapes in the 1990's. This one features a cool red shell and slide case.
007: Memorex dB (1985)
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This low-end Memorex dB probably found itself into many answering machines back in the day.
006: Blank Media Collection // August 2017
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006: Blank Media Collection // August 2017
004: Sony UX (1985)
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004: Sony UX (1985)
003: Sony HF 90 (1986-87)
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003: Sony HF 90 (1986-87)
002: TDK D60 (1985)
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002: TDK D60 (1985)
001: Woolworth's Silver Shadow C-90 Cassette
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001: Woolworth's Silver Shadow C-90 Cassette

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @BharathPrabhuswamy
    @BharathPrabhuswamy Місяць тому

    Absolute dope tape!

  • @oscarflores1980
    @oscarflores1980 3 місяці тому

    That UX-PRO tape is from 1993-1995

  • @Antubis7
    @Antubis7 4 місяці тому

    Where do such old and new cassettes come from?

  • @sajishkumar8680
    @sajishkumar8680 5 місяців тому

    pls send Rate in Indian rupees

  • @SusanMcLoughlin-oe6yh
    @SusanMcLoughlin-oe6yh 6 місяців тому

  • @McLguitars
    @McLguitars 6 місяців тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @Kristinapedia
    @Kristinapedia 6 місяців тому

    Fuji revolutionized the storage of cassettes by REVERSING the casette in the case to make it slimmer. This would allow more to fit in any storage case. NOT ONE OTHER manufacturer followed this design. Granted.. that means all your prerecorded cassettes would not fit in cases designed for slim casettes and vice versa so you'd need two different cases/holders etc. So I'm assuming that's why no one else followed suit. It's a shame because i thought this design was BRILLIANT.

  • @josephfrye7342
    @josephfrye7342 9 місяців тому

    Nice I had one of these but I’m looking for 2003 2005 which is the last of the line cassette.

  • @Morgan7259
    @Morgan7259 10 місяців тому

    Wow a tape from superb and is better than hf series In my opinion obviusly i prefer hf super (hf s) series than hf series and besides because i like its green letter.... Red letter instead. Great video

  • @Acoustic_Theory
    @Acoustic_Theory 10 місяців тому

    I feel lucky to have grown up with these in the 90's. Much better than the old DBS.

  • @sc0or
    @sc0or Рік тому

    1992-1994 US market

  • @АлександрСанин-м5ъ

    Кассеты супер! Я тоже собираю sony , но 1988 год

  • @wolchara2194
    @wolchara2194 Рік тому

    Ракорд не показал. Дэбил.

  • @mehmood9997
    @mehmood9997 Рік тому

    These are 80' s METAL ES AMAZING

  • @danieltapiajuarez3738
    @danieltapiajuarez3738 Рік тому

    My uncle Carmelo gave to me his Sony hfs and ux cassette collection When i was a kid back in 2003

  • @danieltapiajuarez3738
    @danieltapiajuarez3738 Рік тому

    Do you have an Skc cassettes?

  • @danieltapiajuarez3738
    @danieltapiajuarez3738 Рік тому

    I just order a box Of Sony ux 60 minutes cassettes from mercado libre and i want to have My room like That i wanna start My Black cassettes collection to make My mixtapes like When i was a kid and wish i become a DJ now i'm a DJ.

  • @CosasdeOswaldo
    @CosasdeOswaldo Рік тому

    Is it true that there used to be fake versions of this TDK model?

  • @verovieira1
    @verovieira1 Рік тому

    Samsung SQC shell?

  • @HSKY13
    @HSKY13 Рік тому

    Wonderful 👍 I recording this model with a Sony tc-u2 👍😀

  • @Kh40n1c
    @Kh40n1c Рік тому

    Love "Running in The Night".

  • @doyoubelieve2117
    @doyoubelieve2117 Рік тому

    Anywhere I can buy this

  • @KR1275
    @KR1275 Рік тому

    The UX-ES and UX-Pro have the same tape inside.

  • @KR1275
    @KR1275 Рік тому

    The later version had no ceramic guide anymore. It was made of plastic.

  • @jamesgibby8818
    @jamesgibby8818 Рік тому

    dude that is soooo awesome!! where did you get that?

    • @TapeGeek31
      @TapeGeek31 Рік тому

      Pretty sure they were selling it off of there Bandcamp for a while and I was able to pick one up. Cheers and thanks for watching!

  • @5012810
    @5012810 2 роки тому

    I WISH COULD HAVE ALL OF THESE IN THE LATE 80'S!!! BUT JUST HAD HF90...

  • @5012810
    @5012810 2 роки тому

    oh! sooo nice!!!!!!!! thank you!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @CBitsTech
    @CBitsTech 2 роки тому

    A classic. Still looks great.

    • @TapeGeek31
      @TapeGeek31 2 роки тому

      Dang right! Thanks for your comment.

  • @peterwikvist2433
    @peterwikvist2433 2 роки тому

    Great looking cassette

    • @TapeGeek31
      @TapeGeek31 2 роки тому

      I know right?! Thanks for stopping by the channel!

  • @peterwikvist2433
    @peterwikvist2433 2 роки тому

    The SONY UX-PRO with gold packaging is for the US market and made 1992-94.

  • @ninodias4695
    @ninodias4695 2 роки тому

    All Fuji cassete are very god!

  • @TheBebe666
    @TheBebe666 2 роки тому

    Watching now in 2022 ...It is not dead and prices are now crazy.

    • @TapeGeek31
      @TapeGeek31 2 роки тому

      Really!? I haven't kept up with prices very much. Would be interesting to eBay some of these and see what I would get. I'll tell you I have a TON of sealed blank cassettes to sell if anyone is interested.

    • @TheBebe666
      @TheBebe666 2 роки тому

      @@TapeGeek31 If you have rare tapes ...you can get some nice cash nowadays.

  • @everkief8365
    @everkief8365 2 роки тому

    I did 2 minutes and 13 seconds of 80s style step aerobics while watching this video... thanks for the motivation!!!

  • @bletheringfool
    @bletheringfool 2 роки тому

    I would guess that the newer cassette is from the early to mid 90s. It has for CD on it but no web addresses. They tended to start putting websites on labels from the late 90s

    • @TapeGeek31
      @TapeGeek31 Рік тому

      Good observation. Thanks for watching!

  • @nexus-sk9dr
    @nexus-sk9dr 2 роки тому

    Woooooooooooooooooooooo super sound

  • @AudioGuyBrian
    @AudioGuyBrian 2 роки тому

    Why don't you talk about the tapes and at least do some recording tests on them? Just staring at a tape is pretty useless.

  • @MMSound-zl4eo
    @MMSound-zl4eo 2 роки тому

    сразу в мусорку ее.

  • @psg9322
    @psg9322 2 роки тому

    These cassettes have a good design! As for me design of cassete is better for recent UX PRO. But the package for second cassette from 80s is more interesting.

  • @aldonova4082
    @aldonova4082 2 роки тому

    I remember trying to find the best sounding tapes for my 4 track multitrack cassette recorder and final mixdown back in the day. I think the Maxell black hi bias tapes always sounded the best. I still use 3.5" floppy disks some to save things on old school harware and just recently got rid of a Mini Disc 8 track recorder. I record on digital equipment now but it's still fun to encorporate some analog stuff in there. occasionally.

  • @chrislemaster2695
    @chrislemaster2695 2 роки тому

    You need the HF-ES Metal S

  • @chrislemaster2695
    @chrislemaster2695 2 роки тому

    I have almost every Sony Letter tape from 1978-1991 in my collection and most are unopened

  • @chrislemaster2695
    @chrislemaster2695 2 роки тому

    The newest Sony UX pro ccame out Christmas of 1991

  • @olaniyi570
    @olaniyi570 2 роки тому

    Just opened one today. Great sounding tape on a good deck.

  • @olaniyi570
    @olaniyi570 2 роки тому

    I like the bigger window and overall design of the older generation cassette better.

  • @olaniyi570
    @olaniyi570 2 роки тому

    Not a big fan of this generation of Fuji. I like the sound and construction of the FR models much better.

  • @olaniyi570
    @olaniyi570 2 роки тому

    I've found that the HB-2s sound as good as a Tdk SA. Great tapes!

  • @Lucrativecris
    @Lucrativecris 2 роки тому

    You should do a video on the rare sinys

  • @cubdukat
    @cubdukat 2 роки тому

    This was the last really good version of the SA. TDK cheaped out after that, like they knew the cassette's days were numbered and they decided to put their money and resources somewhere else. After this you got flimsy J-cards and only half the labels, plus they started welding the shells shut instead of the screws. Fortunately, the tape itself still was good, even the Imation-made SA's.

  • @cubdukat
    @cubdukat 2 роки тому

    Right now the FE 1 is my go-to Type I, especially the versions with German-made BASF tape in them. The Saehan ones are decent, but I've found the German-made ones are slightly quieter and play better with Dolby S. I also have fewer biasing issues with the German ones than with the Saehans. There seems to be a lot more quality control. Unfortunately, the German versions are hard to find in that particular model year. Most of the ones I get off of eBay are the version after that one, the one right before they became EMTEC. It's a lot easier to get the German ones (it's got "Made in Germany" printed on the shell), and they're still pretty cheap.

  • @cubdukat
    @cubdukat 2 роки тому

    I tried the newer Chinese-made DR-I's, and they were passable if not unremarkable. I have yet to try the Japanese-made ones, though.