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Just for starters..

Re: Archive of tapes - Reel to Reel and Cassette.
 

Philips DP 15 cm Ø

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Philips LP 13 cm Ø ( ± 1964 )

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Philips DP 15 cm Ø mid 1970's

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Philips DP 18 cm Ø late 1970's.
Plastic Aluminium looking spool.
Tape suffers bad shedding of magnetic material.

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Memorex 18 cm Ø ( no leader tape )
Agfa 7.5 cm Ø

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I've had some sticky shed with a few of those Scotch Audio 60 / 90.
These were basically cheap tape aimed at language schools , i.e. speech only. Quality is pretty rough.

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And another. Scotch AV 177 , dating from the mid 1970s. I have a cassette like this too somewhere with a neat sliding plastic box.

Tinted smoked plastic spool, no leaders, tape dark brown in colour 1.5mil.

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1. Pan Canada
2. BASF LGS35 - different length to that previously shown
3. Ferrodynamics - brand 5 - not the original tape in box so not shown
4. Scotch 175 - different length to that previously shown
5. Different inside to Scotch box

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"Reel to reel performance with cassette convenience" claimed Sony's advertising when Elcaset was released in the 1970's. The tape is 6.3mm (¼ inch) running at 9.5cm (3¾ inches per second) giving a recording time of 90 minutes. Unlike compact cassette, Elcaset tape is automatically pulled out of the housing by the transport mechanism. Although the recorders had a 70us position to take a chrome bias tape I believe none were made. Tape formulations FeCr and SLH are the same as for their open reel format of the period. These tapes came with a non-working EL-5 recorder and when repaired may eventually detail process in the success stories section.

Performance is quoted with dolby switched off, add 5dB@1kHz and 10dB>5kHz:

FeCr as 20Hz to 22kHz signal to noise 62dB
SLH as 20Hz to 20kHz signal to noise 59dB

#1: A compact cassette on steroids? Elcaset compared with a standard compact cassette.

#2: Unboxed Elcaset Ferro-chrome FeCr (type 2)

#3: End-on views of box (top), tape path (middle) and erase protection tabs (bottom)

#4: Unboxed Elcaset Ferric SLH (type 1)

However good the format was on paper it did not sell and after a few years Sony ceased production.

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My favourite cassette tape was one made by Teac for a short while in the eighties?

Cassette tapes with little gold 'reel to reel' reels inside :o

Called Sound52

Sorry no images of my own, but google image search 'reel to reel cassette' and you'll find 'em
:thumbsup:

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I think these are the ones.

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^^^ that's them :)

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Any idea who they were actually made by? Presumably one of the Japanese big boys like TDK or Maxell rather than TEAC themselves.

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more than likely, but I've no idea who did actually make them

From memory I only bought 3 or 4 of them cos they were quite expensive compared to a standard cassette, but very cool

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By the look of the cassette body I'd go for TDK as the manufacturer.

They are very smart indeed.

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Here are a few of our 1959 tapes dad got for the Grundig TK25, including two original boxed Grundig examples.

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Early spring clean! Here are some rarer tapes:

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...and Side B:

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and Side C - err, Track 3! Note the Durex tape (2nd box from left) has been over printed Scotch Boy. Both used the white plastic spools marked 'Durex'.