TDK MA METAL BIAS CASSETTES ('79-'91)

[@ralphreinhardt6020]

I'm back again to watch this great video ! I dig all of your cassette videos. 😎👍

[@daviddionisio]

The MAR metal alloy cassette is absolutely fabulous ! The very very best of all...

[@watershed44]

Japanese product like this made in the 80s really were of amazingly high quality, which was never duplicated in the past and likely we will never see again.

[@Badassvidsz]

Likelly and mostly saddly :-(

[@armarra]

thanks for the trip down memory lane. I particularly enjoyed the ma and max, still have those and perchased a pioneer multi cassette changer. It has a tape indicator that specifies large or normal hubsizes and the progress is tracked on a display. now AI have seen the large hub.

[@samishahzadkhan4622]

Superb great cassettes metal. TDK old memories famous for All

[@Badassvidsz]

I can't keep counting how many times i've watched this video :-)

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

A bit obsessive are we? 🤣😂😂

[@massimo6770]

My favorite tapes back in the days. Fenomenal quality. Only problem: too heavy for the mechanics of the car players.

[@choonwahyee9101]

In year's of 1985 , had so many thing's to offer 's , asia are the big markets of music 's , song's , ..... Chinese songs , Cantonese songs , Taiwanese songs ! Than thailand's ! Move in .... Love songs !!! Disco music ! Rocks and rolls !!!! Never let me go ! Mtv videos! Pop 's !!! Solid gold 's

[@classicmusichits811]

I have a MA of late 90's, sealed version of 90 minutes. A classic.

[@futu1983]

What else do you have?

[@tapemaster8252]

never had a MA-X, got a bunch of MAs, the worst Metal tape I had was Fuji, not because of sound quality, my car deck would chew em up easily, great video 👏🏾👏🏾💯

[@RUfromthe40s]

so did mine, but never again use metal tapes on my car and never again i bought fuji cassettes that wasn´t the only problem with them, and i liked very much the film to analogue camera´s they had ,colour or black and white. . I had a kenwood ,with a knob for bass and another for treble and loudness automatic ,when over the midle volume you could notice the loudness becoming off, i also had 8 woofers in a ford escort early 90´s rs2000 and a equalizer that either than fader had volume 10w+10watts ,but i bought the car with one year from a friend of mine, it was a laugh( i would never install 8 woofers in a car 4 are more than enough) ,later some were saying that they had a car cd audio and it had perfect sound ,when in my ford they would become speechless with the power and quality of sound inside ,the music was loud but no hurt in the ears, and i knew other that had under the front seats two huge woofers from pioneer ,like more than 30 cm wide with amps. ,you could talk to the person next to you but no words only the mouth moving

[@TheDeathOfLucifer]

I'm looking for just one Cassette to record over time and time again. I don't need more than two, I am planning to use it for my current playlists, not permanent tapes.

[@daniellocker6921]

Grabe en la cinta trasparente genesis threee sides live aun ls cinta no ha perdido calidad de sonido en un deck sansui d-550 M Y aun la escucho

[@gregornovakowski5819]

What does the red or green tabs indicate? how do i tell if its 90 minutes or 45 minutes? Thank you, appreciate your mastery of audio matters.

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

Hi, I think it tells you at a glance which side is playing.

[@HDXFH]

Great tapes

[@olaniyi570]

Great video! Thanks

[@tenniscollector]

Hey I been trying like fuck to find blank TDK or Maxell tapes and chrome tapes in retail stores. Anyone out there know a distributor is still stocking blank audio tapes in the adelaide australia region.

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

Unfortunately there are no stores selling cassettes simply because they are not bring manufactured! There is blank tapes being made in Korea by SKC but Type II TDK, Maxell and Sony are long gone! Maxell still pump out the UR and that's the only one you're likely to find but these are cheap n nasty! EBAY is your best bet but look around for the lowest price as good type IIs now ho for big bucks! As for Adelaide, I lived there for two months back in 1997 before moving to Melbourne. Nice town!

[@watershed44]

It will be interesting to see what happens IF there is a nostalgia mass return to cassettes, after all audiophiles realized that digital sources just can't offer that very unique warm analog quality to music like vinyl, cassette, and reel to reel can. I think I already saw a story about the resurgence of cassette tapes for audiophiles. If the demand and prices people are willing to pay goes high enough I would bet that TDK, Maxell, and Sony might pull out the old tooling and start producing again.

[@flavioccleto]

please, how many times can we record a tape of this , metal TDK MA

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

Forever!

[@flavioccleto]

@@KRAZEEIZATION thanks

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

@@flavioccleto it will eventually wear out after playing and recording.

[@ManicksChannel]

So in regards to the sound quality of the MA-XG you said "you'd have to hear it really". Is that bad? Is that good? You said the MA-X was the best sound you could get so it's not as good as that I'm guessing?

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

Hi, what I meant was it’s excellent. It’s obviously MA-X tape with the fancy shell.

[@ManicksChannel]

@@KRAZEEIZATION alright thanks. I kind of like the MA-XG shell over the MA-R but I wouldn't want to lose any sound quality. Especially for how much they go for. Thinking about pulling that trigger

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

You have to own one at least! It’s the pinnacle of cassette technology.

[@ManicksChannel]

@@KRAZEEIZATION couldn't have put it better my self!

[@ManicksChannel]

@@KRAZEEIZATION if you had to choose... the one cassette that you could have for the rest of your life... and the only option you had was either a TDK MX-R or... a TDK MX-XG... which would you choose?😐

[@samanthastevens4350]

So can someone help please with a date on these steel cassettes? Mine is prerecorded with vintage dance club songs and says: LBFF512 Appreciate it 👍🏻

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

@@samanthastevens4350 I’m not sure!

[@samanthastevens4350]

I actually contacted TDK and it’s an MA-R90 from 1980-1982. Feeling old now 😩

[@wrestletube1]

The sound of any tapes also depends on the quality of your deck really. If you have a high grade recording device you can get a better recording quality if you have a high grade Walkman you can record onto your computer in high quality. If it's a later higher grade Walkman with Normal, Megabass, Megabass Groove and Sound Revitalisation on it even better because on a Ferric you can use SR mode to make them sound great because it helps output the treble as it should sound on a higher grade Chrome tape standard, you can use Megabass Groove to set the bass of a Chrome to a Ferric standard and you can normal Megabass a metal tape to make the bass on a metal Ferric standard. Just be sure to record on the computer in true uncompressed Wave format and to also not let it run on battery put it in the mains and you can have a digital copy of whats on the tape too. Definitely the deck matters as well I would say because if you have EQ tricks on your deck to make tapes sound as good as other tapes in the sound ranges they fail at normally then you can get a CD quality sound on the best graded tapes from each type. Did you know that there was a load of existing hybrid tape types as well made for the market to so called improve the sound quality of all the normal tape types on the market Maxell were the only ones by the looks of things who made a Hybrid of Normal Metal compound with Colbalt Alloy Metal compound but even they exist and even Type II hybrids exist on a fun reel looking tape which I think might be an exclusive hybrid too. The only couple of types of hybrids done by a ton of brands seems to be the Ferric Cobalt Hybrids and the FerroChrome Hybrids the Chrome and Metal Colbalt Hybrids seem to be only brand exclusive on my first glance at hybrid cassette technology. Cobalt Ferric Type I Hybrid www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Set-of-2-MAXELL-UDI-CD-60-120-min-Cobalt-Alloy-Audio-Cassette-Tapes-New-Sealed-/172511511967?hash=item282a7cc59f:g:w-8AAOSw~OVW1Q-M Cobalt Chrome Type II Hybrid www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TEAC-Cobalt-52G-Metal-Reel-RARE-Cassette-Tape-X4-/272535881717?hash=item3f746787f5:g:5nEAAOSwjDZYimgi Cobalt Metal Type IV Hybrid www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Maxell-MX-S-C100-Type-IV-Metal-Blank-Audio-Cassette-Tape-NEW-Sealed/122362619053?_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131017132637%26meid%3D14b97dc6716948bd8451efb1199e86bb%26pid%3D100033%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D8%26sd%3D272535881717 There was never a Type III Hybrid out as that in itself was a Ferric Chrome Hybrid. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SONY-FeCr-90-1-NEW-BLANK-AUDIO-CASSETTE-TAPE-Type-III-FerroChrome-Record-90min-/122326768290?hash=item1c7b3e5aa2:g:RD0AAOSwzJ5XUwao What Hybrid would you say would win the battle? Would love to see a batle of the hybrids if you can afford one of each hybrid that is as hybrids are expensive in all flavors of tape grade.

[@Badassvidsz]

Of course the better the cassette tape deck is - the players CDps - TTs and the quality of the cassettes the better the recording too < No need to mantion that > You have posted a whole Essay dude to say that ................................................man

[@colingarner6175]

Just playing one of those TDK tapes in my Sony wmd 6c

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

Lucky!

[@giuseppelavecchia775]

Cassette pazzesche,soloTDK poteva fare GIOIELLI simili!

[@ImreBaracsi]

Fontos információ !!!!📼📼📼📼📼📼

[@papaasiansticker1590]

I have four sealed TDK metal cassettes, are those worth anything?

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

Stick em on eBay and you'll see. Make sure they're at current market value!

[@AttilaTheHun333333]

So, how much did you get? :)

[@sportodevy833]

at least $20-30, depends on model

[@estebandarioferrari3317]

muchas gracias por la informacion.- nice video.- thx for the information.-

[@vartuilagzyan6327]

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[@EddieJazzFan]

why did some cassettes have bigger hubs?

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

It looked fancy! Who doesn't love a 46 with big hubs!!!!

[@HamtaroEL]

Actually, it is for more tension control which also affects the tape and head contact with larger hubs. So there is more to that than just fashion although I think it looks cool.

[@VIDSTORAGE]

There is a cassette manufacture in the US but they do not make Metal tapes but they should...

[@Badassvidsz]

Don't cpmplain dude thx god there is this one :-) You can buy brand new tapes form there for your deck though :-) I can only find in e.bay annoyinglly expensive

[@claudiodean6363]

Eram as mais caras !!

[@MarioLopez-bq8hw]

Do you sell it?

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

No!

[@UberPilot]

Just found a BOX of MA90s!!!!

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

I guess it's like winning the cassette lotto!

[@nicolatavilla4415]

KRAZEEIZATION I have around 40.000 Thousand CASETTES all new all sealed new and over 100 different Ones I need to sell them or trade if any one know where I can sell them all or trade please let me know Thank You Nick Tavilla 6027541445

[@futu1983]

@@nicolatavilla4415 I'll take all.

[@somejew2345]

digital cool u rec without these plus reels back ups hard copy

[@laurentconverset3515]

[@ЛидияПонятова-к1н]

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