I snatched this cool collection from my favorite new record and equipment shop here in town, when I get some free time maybe I can play with it more but it looks pretty interesting. They're using the IEC (Prague) 1981 standard for these four tapes and they include 1. MTT-256U Freq 2. MTT-150 Dolby Level Calibration Tone 3. MTT-114N Azmuith 4. MTT-111DN Flutter The tapes all have a serial number and look untouched, anybody seen this collection?
Very interesting. I have a new calibration cassette made by ANT, but I'd like to also have ones like these. They are unvaluable tools for testing and calibrating decks and walkmans.
Teac made a few different tapes Derek marshall, including the really cool reel to reel model that goes for silly money. In fact I just checked and all of the Teac Blank Cassettes go for big money these days, I don't think I own one or have seen a blank TEAC Cassette over the years, pretty much non-existent like Nakamichi and Technics Tapes... Minnesota thrifts sometimes have odd items, more so a few years ago, from the audio industry. At one time we had robust audio manufacturing along with a ton of speaker guys here. 3M is headquartered here (Wollansack, Scotch, Mincom, Imation, etc) I just drove by Magnapan (Magnaplaner) a few days ago and Audio Research is also still manufacturing here. I worked for the company that bought out Nortronics, a huge head manufacturer at one time. These items sometimes end up for sale and you have to grab them when you get the chance, I'm sure a lot of this ended up in the dumpster when everyone thought tape was dead in the late 90's. I just found this website while looking for Nortronics Information, there's some great information on tape heads on it. http://www.jrfmagnetics.com/index.html?JRF_mainframe=/JRF_nortronics.html Great eye cmarti....The Sansui FR-4060 is one of my favorites, just a huge chunky looking 70's masterpiece, this one is doing daily duty right now but I don't want to rotate it yet.
Hello mr x, nice score on the teac test tapes I need to get myself a new one I had those teac ones they are great I still have my Dennon test Cd thou. Sincerely Richard
Thanks radiorich, I've always had a decent eye for collectables but this kind of stuff is getting much harder to find. Luckily years ago I was also buying test equipment and tapes like this when they were pretty much free, it's wild that the market has done a full 180 on cassette tapes.
Hello mr X, For sure Cd's are starting to get more attention now too I see teens and other young people moving back to physcal media I even know young student who recently got Ipod . Sincerely Richard
Personally I feel it's not just the "media" but the hunt. I could have easily bought a $350 monster receiver or M90 on Ebay and throw in a $75 WM-D6, 20 years ago but for me, the thrift store/garage sale hunt was much more fun. While I'm really getting to hate FM radio for the very limited playlists, the younger set are hearing our very singable hits and then going a mission to find the CD/Album/Tape. I run into them once in a while and the digging for gold mentality is strong.
Hello mr X, So true I was a garage sale few weeks ago and the family was selling about 200 8 track tapes I bought two unopened ones to use when repairing 8 tracks players .
