Tascam reintroducing high bias cassettes

[The Scum]

The scene I came up in, the legend was that the shorter running time tapes had thicker backing than the longer ones, and the 90's were more prone to stretching/breaking/snarling, moreso on the high speed machines. So we'd opt for 46's - 13 minutes on a 238.

[CraigS63]

Waiting for the hipsters to bring back Type III tape...
"I think these sound the best, but I am... biased..."

https://tapetardis.wordpress.com/2012/0 ... -cassette/

[vernier]

That Tascam tape looks neat but I can only afford to re-use tape that's decades old, lol

[standup]

I dropped by the Tascam site this morning, and they have a page for their cassette: https://tascam.com/us/product/424/top

ATM looks like $21.99 for a single cassette.

They are probably made by National Audio Co, and they’ll sell you a box of 10 for $40. But it won’t have those silly little reels.

Continuing my survey, looks like people are selling 10 unopened oldschool XL-II’s for $65 on Reverb.

Curious.

I still have and use 4-track cassette for fun, so I’m interested in this topic.

[digitaldrummer]

ouch! I was pretty close with my sarcastic estimate.

[kslight]

I dropped by the Tascam site this morning, and they have a page for their cassette: https://tascam.com/us/product/424/top

ATM looks like $21.99 for a single cassette.

They are probably made by National Audio Co, and they’ll sell you a box of 10 for $40. But it won’t have those silly little reels.

Continuing my survey, looks like people are selling 10 unopened oldschool XL-II’s for $65 on Reverb.

Curious.

I still have and use 4-track cassette for fun, so I’m interested in this topic.

I have a box of 100 new I got a few years ago…I’ll sell for the bargain price of $20 a pop.

[shedshrine]

TEAC metal reels.jpg (27.87 KiB) Viewed 4233 times

If we're going there, let's go all the way. Golden opportunity for TEAC to re-issue *these.
*note actual metal reels rather than plastic with air brushed "sheen" spots.

[thepsychedelicdollhouse]

$21.99 is too expensive for me. I've got a healthy supply already but would have bought a few at around $10.

[shedshrine]

You can store them in this..

https://reverb.com/item/30339828-cassette-tape-lunchbox

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At work we were going through old storage and throwing out a lot of old Imation data cartridges. Geez, would have been interesting if Tascam,Yamaha et al would have used this tech to make a nice step up in performance and maybe extend the format a while longer..or not. Digital was not to be denied when it finally arrived.