Martin, Thank you!
Memorex, yes both are USA, so far the surface shell design seems to copy the SKM design.
But in the past I have gotten a Memorex Cire I and Cire II, both of which looked like the SKM but were different in design.
Unfortunately the hubs used suffered from the same deformation syndrome as the Emtec, so they will be unusable without replacement.
https://ez647.sk/cc/memorex_cirei.html
https://ez647.sk/cc/memorex_cireii.html
I've had Saft on here before as a chromdioxide, I think we were discussing it at the time, so Magna is about right
https://ez647.sk/cc/saft_chromdioxidsuper.html
With all National Angrom cassettes, even others with custom designs, I feel very much a collaboration with TDK. With this Angrom in the photo it looks like a classic TDK cassette with a small window.
For the custom National designs, although it doesn't have TDK markings, also there are mysteriously different tape types used, like the picture and color ones, but all the serial numbers are almost identifiable as TDK.
The date identification works exactly on all the pieces I have, on the Angrom, but also on these:
https://ez647.sk/cc/national_nce.html
https://ez647.sk/cc/national_nsy.html
Basf LH Super red, I will correct to use fine iron oxide with pigment from Pfizer
Basf ferro Super LH red, second generation, I'll figure it out somehow, I'll leave both options for now
Basf green, I'll change it to FeCo
if I don't forget, I'll add one more used ferro Super LH I cassette I had once borrowed from a colleague at work, it had white labels but traces of mould on the labels, although the tape was fine, so I didn't want to post it at the time
but it had the same booklet as the last one I have from 1981, so I was confused, I'll add it as an attachment, the number is 1732045122, so it's even newer than the one I have on the web
In all the more modern Basf ferro's I'll have to fix the compositions and completely rebuild models like the Ferro Extra etc. Which will take a lot of time again.
But how to correctly indicate the composition? LD-iron oxide?
Then I would still have the following questions:
LD iron oxide is only listed on the Ferro Extra 1990-1992, newer packaging doesn't have it anymore, but practically that type of tape is used until the end of production for Emtec? Unless of course you count the already OEM cassettes.
Basf FEI made in GMS also has LD oxide on the packaging, but sonically it came out differently and very badly, or is the reason that the tape is from Basf's Indonesian branch?
Yes I know, I should do a comparison with That's RX cassette tapes as well, where this was an option for the same tape
I suppose I can take the ferro extra tape as a template for the budget models Sound I, ReCord I, Ferro Standard, and various of those special series like Power Tape, etc. as well?
For the ReCord I, I'm not always sure, because the first generation with that lavish 1994-1996 printing had a different dark and very powerful ferro tape in some pieces, and just plain FEI in some
In the new generation 1997-1998 with the gold mirror, crescent, it most certainly had just FEI
hmm that was an exhaustive post
Memorex, yes both are USA, so far the surface shell design seems to copy the SKM design.
But in the past I have gotten a Memorex Cire I and Cire II, both of which looked like the SKM but were different in design.
Unfortunately the hubs used suffered from the same deformation syndrome as the Emtec, so they will be unusable without replacement.
https://ez647.sk/cc/memorex_cirei.html
https://ez647.sk/cc/memorex_cireii.html
I've had Saft on here before as a chromdioxide, I think we were discussing it at the time, so Magna is about right
https://ez647.sk/cc/saft_chromdioxidsuper.html
With all National Angrom cassettes, even others with custom designs, I feel very much a collaboration with TDK. With this Angrom in the photo it looks like a classic TDK cassette with a small window.
For the custom National designs, although it doesn't have TDK markings, also there are mysteriously different tape types used, like the picture and color ones, but all the serial numbers are almost identifiable as TDK.
The date identification works exactly on all the pieces I have, on the Angrom, but also on these:
https://ez647.sk/cc/national_nce.html
https://ez647.sk/cc/national_nsy.html
Basf LH Super red, I will correct to use fine iron oxide with pigment from Pfizer
Basf ferro Super LH red, second generation, I'll figure it out somehow, I'll leave both options for now
Basf green, I'll change it to FeCo
if I don't forget, I'll add one more used ferro Super LH I cassette I had once borrowed from a colleague at work, it had white labels but traces of mould on the labels, although the tape was fine, so I didn't want to post it at the time
but it had the same booklet as the last one I have from 1981, so I was confused, I'll add it as an attachment, the number is 1732045122, so it's even newer than the one I have on the web
In all the more modern Basf ferro's I'll have to fix the compositions and completely rebuild models like the Ferro Extra etc. Which will take a lot of time again.
But how to correctly indicate the composition? LD-iron oxide?
Then I would still have the following questions:
LD iron oxide is only listed on the Ferro Extra 1990-1992, newer packaging doesn't have it anymore, but practically that type of tape is used until the end of production for Emtec? Unless of course you count the already OEM cassettes.
Basf FEI made in GMS also has LD oxide on the packaging, but sonically it came out differently and very badly, or is the reason that the tape is from Basf's Indonesian branch?
Yes I know, I should do a comparison with That's RX cassette tapes as well, where this was an option for the same tape
I suppose I can take the ferro extra tape as a template for the budget models Sound I, ReCord I, Ferro Standard, and various of those special series like Power Tape, etc. as well?
For the ReCord I, I'm not always sure, because the first generation with that lavish 1994-1996 printing had a different dark and very powerful ferro tape in some pieces, and just plain FEI in some
In the new generation 1997-1998 with the gold mirror, crescent, it most certainly had just FEI
hmm that was an exhaustive post