Save your Blank Cassettes

[dad911]

I tossed a few cases of Maxell UDxl II's.....

[porsche930dude]

I grab blank vhs at rummage sales and garage sales all the time. Sell them on ebay 10 or so at a time. They sell well

[72doug2,2S]

I only used Maxell. Remember this poster/ad?

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by Sooner or later

I was primarily a TDK guy. A group of us would buy them by the case.

I have one of the give away cases that hold 15 in my office right now.

I made a bunch of CD's to play in the Miata, they go bad in a convertible though, need to burn a few new ones

[cairns]

Blank? They're full of the Allman Brothers, Cream, Led Zeppelin and all that other stuff I was listening to in the 70s.

[nota]

some day soon if it has not already happened

the last 8-track will die

[masraum]

I used to have a ton of cassettes, and even after I started buying CDs still had lots of cassettes so I could record to those and play the CDs in my cars. For a looooong time, I had a really nice old Akai deck, I am 99% certain that it was this model



I've since sold that and no longer have anyway to play any cassettes, but I did save something like 75-100 cassettes for nostalgia reasons.

[flatbutt]

I still have this beauty. Approx $60 for a tape.

[sc_rufctr]

"flatbutt"... Reel to reels are considered the best analogue source by far. I'd hang on to that.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

Nice video..I loved the ending comments. Why fool around with tape? No need to...but for fun, like many other things humans do.

[BlueWing]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

"flatbutt"... Reel to reels are considered the best analogue source by far. I'd hang on to that.

I just recently sold my Tandberg 200 recently 4 channel sound on sound. It had issues with the belts and rollers and I knocked it over at some point and broke the spindles. I had it for maybe 30 years.

Than found boxes of recorded albums and a dozen blanks. ost all were Maxells.

Than Cases of Maxell VHS tapes from my days in the security biz.

They were all sold off but one (my brothers band) and now looking to get that copied over to a CD.

Sold pretty well and quick.

Terry

[Baz]

My first year in college I lived in a dorm on campus.

Second year too - it was school policy back then (1972).

So I had a roommate - he was from Tampa and his parents had the Lafayette Electronics store there. He brings in this super nice reel to reel and sets it up on our dresser along with a couple of those huge wooden speakers - Criterion 4X models.

Our room wasn't all that big, mind you. Listening to Emerson, Lake, and Palmer with the lights off and black light on was pretty insane!

I've never owned a reel to reel myself but will never forget how almost perfect the sound was.

[tdw28210]

Cassette tapes?? then you HAD to have the Nakamichi rx-202. No auto reverse, it was uni-directional and rotated the actual cassette. Something about the direction of the metal pieces embedded in the tape.

[sc_rufctr]

"tdw28210" That's one of the most sort after Naks in existence.
With a bit of luck you may be able to find a front door on Ebay!

I own a Nakamichi BX-125. 2 head, no auto reverse... Still sounds great from the mid 80s.

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by tdw28210

Cassette tapes?? then you HAD to have the Nakamichi rx-202. No auto reverse, it was uni-directional and rotated the actual cassette. Something about the direction of the metal pieces embedded in the tape.

I think the idea was a way of controlling the azimuth error of the tape moving across the head, if I remember correctly.

[rusnak]

Originally Posted by 72doug2,2S

I only used Maxell. Remember this poster/ad?

We did a few threads about that ad!

It made me go buy the original chairs.

[CurtEgerer]

This is always amusing: the wood cases shown here are Napa Valley brand. They pretty much made all the wood cases back in the day. They sell easily on eBay for $50-75. These were at a flea market today. Not for sale, just holding the 10-cent cassettes There's a thrift store I go to once in a while with about 50 of these cases screwed to the wall. Again, cases not for sale, just holding the cassettes ....

[craigster59]

Hanging in my garage, courtesy of HughR.....

[pwd72s]

Have one of those racks above...it's full.

[rusnak]

That Nakamichi is fantastic. I should have saved my Sony audio tape deck/ tuner. It came with an external amp and crossover. I stupidly threw it out. But I kept my Concord HPL 550.