29.01.2023, 00:15
I've been fascinated with tape and cassette since the late 80s, both audio and VHS, plus other formats that often got reprinted in catalogues. VHS does have some technological differences and comparing them to audio cassettes is interesting, they often use the same magnetic layer designations. And then there are a few other manufacturers who have not been very involved in the audio field, for example Panasonic Japan VHS I consider to be extremely high quality tapes, the question is to what extent TDK has been involved and to what extent they have taken advantage of Angrom technology, where I have had a few suspicions about the use of such tapes in the video field, but I don't know of any material or person in the world yet who has any information about this.
I deliberately wrote SKC only QX FeCo because I know about CD chromdioxide. But when Martin recently posted in the forum and sent me links to SKC Chrome + FeCo I was extremely surprised that such a thing existed and yet which SKC model would represent it?
At Memorex there was a CDX2 audio cassette from 1996 (not meaning CDXII with Metal tape for Type II) and there on that modern CDX2 it said Epitaxial, and the tape was special, the performance was extremely high, I thought they had bought the pigment, or a Maxell tape similar to what was claimed for the Basf TPII, but I got that link to the SKC professional sheet with Chrome FeCo tape as a reply, but I still haven't gotten it into my head how realistic it is, I'll have to do at least an optical comparison of the tapes again sometime.
Acme had so many types of tape? As long as I see Chinese audiotapes with generic designs, it's scary to me and I consider it all the same poor quality. Of course the tapes will be different. Like Forward's audiotapes and their OEM versions where anything is possible, although they filled most of it for us with GreenCorp tape from Australia, I try to avoid it today because of binder decomposition.
link to Memorex CDX2 https://ez647.sk/cc/memorex_cdx2.html
of course I may have to adjust the composition, but that's when I really believed there was Maxell
they list "Revolutionary epitaxial cobalt cobalt magnetite formulation" as the formulation, it's not Chrome Plus, but neither is SKC's regular FeCo
But then again, marketing works on a higher level than the tape itself
I deliberately wrote SKC only QX FeCo because I know about CD chromdioxide. But when Martin recently posted in the forum and sent me links to SKC Chrome + FeCo I was extremely surprised that such a thing existed and yet which SKC model would represent it?
At Memorex there was a CDX2 audio cassette from 1996 (not meaning CDXII with Metal tape for Type II) and there on that modern CDX2 it said Epitaxial, and the tape was special, the performance was extremely high, I thought they had bought the pigment, or a Maxell tape similar to what was claimed for the Basf TPII, but I got that link to the SKC professional sheet with Chrome FeCo tape as a reply, but I still haven't gotten it into my head how realistic it is, I'll have to do at least an optical comparison of the tapes again sometime.
Acme had so many types of tape? As long as I see Chinese audiotapes with generic designs, it's scary to me and I consider it all the same poor quality. Of course the tapes will be different. Like Forward's audiotapes and their OEM versions where anything is possible, although they filled most of it for us with GreenCorp tape from Australia, I try to avoid it today because of binder decomposition.
link to Memorex CDX2 https://ez647.sk/cc/memorex_cdx2.html
of course I may have to adjust the composition, but that's when I really believed there was Maxell
they list "Revolutionary epitaxial cobalt cobalt magnetite formulation" as the formulation, it's not Chrome Plus, but neither is SKC's regular FeCo
But then again, marketing works on a higher level than the tape itself