28.01.2023, 17:12
2245:
I only use classic white LEDs for backlighting, so I don't see the backlighting on the darkest ones anymore, but I understand that it's probably the case. But the comparison of each piece of audiotape is interesting. I always check pretty closely the appearance, colour and condition of the tape on every audio cassette I get for my collection, even if I unwrap, for example, a few exactly identical pieces just because they have a different print or length, like the aforementioned Basf HPII, or Sony CDix, Axia Color and so on.
Did you find translucency in metallics as well, since you write that only CrO2s don't translucent?
What about the SKC QX comparison? There are also different tapes each vintage.
Overall, I don't believe in the consistency of SKC tape production, just as I don't believe in the consistency of Sony EF tape and their budget models, but those are topics for endless debate and conjecture.
I like the Basf Suono theory
It really is the date of manufacture that's at odds. Is there any material on how the switch from Taiyo Yuden to General Magnetics was made? Because even during That's years of operation, some models were already made in Singapore.
I also don't know why That's coils appear in GoldStar audio tapes from 1992 onwards? A copy? Or purchased?
It is no longer a secret that the production of audiocassettes combines two manufacturing worlds, namely the shell/component manufacturing and the actual production of the tape. The two are sometimes so intricately intertwined that it's not easy to know.
Yours sincerely EZ
I only use classic white LEDs for backlighting, so I don't see the backlighting on the darkest ones anymore, but I understand that it's probably the case. But the comparison of each piece of audiotape is interesting. I always check pretty closely the appearance, colour and condition of the tape on every audio cassette I get for my collection, even if I unwrap, for example, a few exactly identical pieces just because they have a different print or length, like the aforementioned Basf HPII, or Sony CDix, Axia Color and so on.
Did you find translucency in metallics as well, since you write that only CrO2s don't translucent?
What about the SKC QX comparison? There are also different tapes each vintage.
Overall, I don't believe in the consistency of SKC tape production, just as I don't believe in the consistency of Sony EF tape and their budget models, but those are topics for endless debate and conjecture.
I like the Basf Suono theory
It really is the date of manufacture that's at odds. Is there any material on how the switch from Taiyo Yuden to General Magnetics was made? Because even during That's years of operation, some models were already made in Singapore.
I also don't know why That's coils appear in GoldStar audio tapes from 1992 onwards? A copy? Or purchased?
It is no longer a secret that the production of audiocassettes combines two manufacturing worlds, namely the shell/component manufacturing and the actual production of the tape. The two are sometimes so intricately intertwined that it's not easy to know.
Yours sincerely EZ