Oh, that chrome was heavenly! Barely any noise under the music.

the sheer amount of tapes this man must have with a single song at the very beginning must be of the highest count

Just joined up on Patreon :) My bet is that these sold for less than technically comparable tapes from TDK and Maxell, as while JVC were highly regarded for their hi-fi equipment and made some lovely decks, they were a 2nd or 3rd rung tape manufacturer. They command high prices today as they are relatively scarce.

This is the very first time i am seeing Cassette Tapes made by JVC as i had never seen them here in Sri Lanka ! Maybe because there was no agent here for marketing JVC tapes. We had very good brands like TDK and Maxell among other brands. In early days we had brands like Memorex, Scotch followed by BASF.

Another cool video there Tony. It's good to see a new C.C. episode. Well done sir.👍👍

The XFIV is probably made by JVC themselves. They've been selling tapes in Japan under their Victor name for decades. I think it was only the last five or so years that they appear to have started farming their tape manufacturing to others like Saehan. I recently bought my first AFII in decades, and I have to say, It wasn't quite what I remembered. It was a little underwhelming, but then again, it was my first time recording cassettes in almost ten years, and my first with the new Denon deck and manual bias adjustment. I'll have to order another couple AFIIs and give them a go. I definitely want to give the UFII a go because of the pure chrome,.

I had some of the JVC metals back in the day, they were amazing! yet another great review Tony, Thanks !

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Another great video. Man, looks like Seihan make tapes for more people than anyone else.

I bought a twin pack of UFI-90s with the ICM hubs from Carrefour supermarket in France whilst on a school trip in 1995 I believe. I had never seen JVC cassettes in the UK so wanted to try them myself.

I'm commenting on the previous video. I totally get what you mean by the satisfaction of making tapes when I did it in the mid-eighties I had a 20 band numark equalizer that went to 15 decibels each direction a cheap sanyo cassette deck the sound quality was good and my friends were. impressed

Used a fair amount of JVC VHS video tape back in the day, but don't really remember JVC Cassettes. Of course once my cassette deck died and I was lured astray by CD-R and digital audio, I wasn't much looking at cassettes. Your right though, digital is too easy and there's no "magic" so it just becomes another background modern "convenience" taken for granted.

Thanks Tony for the video!!!I've never seen a video of JVC cassette tapes before!!I like the AF1 better than the UF1.I think I like Korean tapes; They have this velvet fully sound.Anyway , as You Said, all of them have decent performing AND are collectable pieces , even If they are not cheaper than other tradicional brands.Thanks again Tony for sharing!!!Regards!Rafael

Good way of putting it, definitely looks like a last gasp at putting something out with the JVC name on it. The shells especially the metal are a let down. Looking at the vintage cassette website I bought version from the 83-87 US. Had a fair number of DA7.

They look amazing!

nice looking and sounding tapes but i do not care how many times i see the Revox it is a thing of beauty! Cheers!

Nice video Tony. I was just wondering if you've made a video about the JVC Tapes until you just uploaded one today. Those JVC tapes sounded pretty good. I do have another breed of JVC tapes that I don't mind sending you one. They are the JVC GI-90 Tapes. Let me know if you want one shipped to you to test it out. Thanks for the videos.

I love that hubs....looking reel to reel

I had a few JVC Type-1's back in the day. Never had any issues with them.

Nice sounding tapes!

Clearly remember very these UF IIs made in Switzerland were available in Belgium / Netherlands in 1989/1990. My guess was the same, very BASF-looking tape. On the other hand, these JVC chrome tapes resemble Phillips UCX cassettes, also produced in Switzerland, at the same plant I suspect, in 1989-1990.

The KZfaq algorithm has brought me here. 3 1/2 years later.

It's strange you're saying JVC casettes were only sold in Europe around 1990. I bought a few of the FI Type I entry level model as a kid, and that was in '88. They were 30-40% cheaper than HF's and D's at that moment in the same store.

Thanks for the demo Tony! Looking at VintageCassettes.com the '90-'91 range for US vs. EUR strikes me as odd, there's also a note mentioning it on the website, but the range for Europe is larger than for the US (probably because JVC cassettes made by ICM were exclusive to Europe, and ICM "added" extra tapes to the range, but I digress) US- GI, AFI, AFII, XFIV EUR- GI, FI-S, AFI, UFI, UFII-S, XFIV Now I know that VintageCassettes.com is neither a perfect or complete database, but it is the most thorough one that I've found. However, "inconsistent" is a great word to describe these, especially from the appraisals via Tapeheads. Definitely ones to check for a picture of the back half when buying to look for country of manufacture, as well as other "markers". For instance I noticed that the '88-'89 GI norelco case uses the same retainers as the '87-'89 Scotch XS-II and Denon cassettes. Taiyo Yuden was mentioned to have OEM'ed for JVC at one point...

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i have a cro2 or just named as co2 but not sure but its one of those two option on a hifi , is that a setting for pure chrome or ferro colbalt? or both many thanks,

Perhaps the flaws that you have exposed in your 30 min review were the reason why the range didn't last long in Europe. That's possibly the cheapest Metal casing I've seen. The CCC is an excellent idea, by co-incidence I ordered a JVC G-1 today, although I apologise for confusing your website with my order. 5 star vlog as ever Tony.

I don't think they look "low rent," I think they just look average or plain. It kind of screams "me too! I'm like everyone else" OTOH, the early 80s paper label TDK D everyone around here loves, I think looks cheap and low end, almost like a type zero.

I used to make mixed tapes in the 80s and 90s . The best sounding tape I ever made was a 9.3.

JVC optical media was largely made by Taiyo Yuden. Any chance TY also supplied the tape for JVC at some point?

what hub website do you use to identify the hubs on the tapes? thanks in advance

I have got the pack of JVC AFII tapes. Do you know by the chance if they are also pure chrome? Calibration on Sony ES is quite strange, very similar to BASF Chrome Extra II in terms of level, however, BIAS must be even more to the right, calibration level is also much higher than on Sony UX-S or TDK SA.

Regreso el cassette viva

As I know, typical calibration standards are: 1) 0dB "0VU" (160 nWb, Philips standard cassette level, used by e.g. most deck in the 70s, like earlier Pioneers) vs 2) 0dB "DIN" (250 nWb/m, used by e.g. later Pioneers or other producers in the late 80s/90s) vs 3) Dolby Level (200 nWb/m using ANSI method or +2.8 dB from 0VU, or 218nWb/m, -1.2 dB from DIN Reference, this was used by all Nakamichis). Revox service manual says 0dB is 200nWb/m which is probably the dolby level standard (depending on the technique used to measure). So, if your deck is calibrated differently, not as per the service manual, e.g. using 250nWb/m DIN standard, that would be still be just 2dB more (or 1.2dB more), not +3dB I belive. I have made multiple tests on decks calibrated using 200nWb/m and 250nWb/m standards and the results (most noticeable by noise floor level, but also by the frequency response) clearly show the calibration standard differences. I found the best information on the topic here: www.tapeheads.net/showpost.php?p=160005&postcount=8

All of them have different tape lengths. 60 is 88, which will give precisely 30 minutes, many maufacturers started with 88, then switched to 90 for slightly over 30 minutes for safer recording, the 90 one is 131 and the other 135, 131 (and 132 which is more common to early BASF for example) gives precisely 90 minute, while rounder number 135 gives 47,5 minutes per side.

Good morning, I'm watching your video for the first time, I would like to ask about the cassette recorder I bought, namely the JVC KD-VR5, whether it will be sufficient to record a nice-sounding cassette in the FLAC system with Foobar 2000, e.g. TDK SA or SA-X for home, non-audiophile purposes , comparable to the quality of a CD?

I remember buying a lot of these JVC cassettes from JVC dealers and they were excellent performers whatever type you bought. For my JVC NICAM Hi-fi Stereo VCR I used JVC Hi-fi HG videotape and it gave excellent terrestrial NICAM stereo performance and superb stereo satellite recordings from MTV Europe Sky Movies Sky One Lifestyle Satellite Jukebox Sky News The Children's Channel and other stereo offerings from the Astra Satellites.

The (pseudo) high-hat virtually disappears with the chrome. I suspect its deficiency would be more apparent with higher frequency content. Perhaps a better performer in another deck? As always, thanks for the demos - always informative and entertaining.

I currently have a JVC. FI 90. Normal basis. It appears to be an 80’s era design made in Japan. I said it on par with the usual suspects type 1

I got acoustic fidelity ii the type ii of Jvc which it is a saehan assembled jvc tape which it is in USA Canada north and South American too

Centro TV Video & HiFi on King Street Blackburn used to sell JVC cassettes along with Panasonic Technics And JVC HiFi systems VCR's and TV's.

JVC Metal looks like Axia OEM.

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I would like to ask what tape recorder I should buy at a normal price of 150-300 euros that would record TDK SA-SA-X cassettes nicely?

I really like JVC tape recorders but I don't know if they are good, could you write me an opinion about them or what is better to buy?

I have a bunch of early 90s AFIIs (which may have been purchased in Europe but I'm not sure) and they're just Saehan Type 2's. They look exactly like the AFI except the stripe on the sticker is blue. I guess internally AF=Saehan and UF=ICM (at least in Europe, I've seen photos of UFs without ICM hubs). Frankly having too many undifferentiated product lines that compete with each other is not a good look for any company. And JVC tapes were definitely around in North America but I never remember them being as popular as Maxell/TDK/Sony and even Fuji and BASF.

Sorry but the Revox should be Dolby scale. If it‘s not, it‘s calibrated wrong. And there is also no +3 scale. It‘s either -3 (old VU standard where Dolby Mark is at +3) or the DIN standard, where the Dolby mark is at -2. I heard that in several of your recent videos and needed to point that out now. For reference, see Revox B215 Service Manual..

UF I and UF II : Shell , reel , bolts - similarly Dessauer (LAZER FS) Germany.

JVC had some tape factories of their self. And in contrast of the general opinion JVC wasn't a third rate brand. They made cheap stuff ( as did Sony and Marantz ) but also state of the art equipment. The older series of tapes where very well tested in hifi magazines. The older metaltape ( I sent you one Tony) and the UF2 postion 2 tape were testwinners.

One day Tony, that knife is going to get the better of your fingers !!

The hubs on the ICM make me dizzy 🙂

18:32 VINTAGE JVC WAS EXTREAM HIGH END

JVC XFIV - Made in Japan. I suspect the cooperation of Fuji Japan, because the clamp in the hubs is identical to selected Fuji models. But this is not mentioned anywhere on the Internet among collectors. JVC UFII - chromium dioxide, but 1988 UFII is made in Japan, has the same design as XFIV and is ferro cobalt. JVC had it really very colorful. I think the use of ICM cartridges was exclusively for the European or US market. To make matters worse, JVC accidentally used tapes from China, Korea GoldStar, or even "That´s" Japan. And all in the same packaging!

Can you review a crap tape recorder? Try the Walmart onn brand cassette tape recorder. My experience with it is terrible. It started off good, but then the machine started playing the tape slower than it should, so I replaced the belts, and it was good again, but then the same thing happen three weeks later. So I got a RadioShack brand one as a gift from my tió(uncle), and it still has the original belts, the machine works perfectly. The Walmart tape recorder I just use to rewind and fast forward tapes or just to experiment. I would like to see your opinion.

XFIV - Thisi Axia/Fuji metal tape

damn, those XFIV metal cassettes are RARE. You have an easier time finding a JVC Type III then finding those most of the time. I can't even find any examples sold on ebay in the last few months.

Patreon just doxed 72 of their users. They imposed (by their terms of service) arbitration, but then when several hundred users all filed arbitrations at the same time, they filed against them in the courts and they did it specifically to dox them and get them to back off because the arbitration rules basically puts all of the legal expense on Patreon. Within hours of the suit being filed, all of them had their names and addresses on the internet because court filings are public. Isn't funny how the doxers knew to go look at California public records so quickly. Things that make you go hmm....

i have a set of JVC GI90 tapes. all S A E H A N

JVC. My favorite audio company. Right there with Denon. Not digging the Revox level indicator. Has me seeing double.

По русски , это уже новодел называется. Novodel - faceless cassettes

The JVC Metal is not flaking, so probably not TDK.

Hoy 7/2/24 adquiri un jvc Cromo

JVC going pure chrome makes sense. My main deck is a JVC and it works best with chrome. Too bad the tapes look a bit generic. The AF1 is nice looking, but the rest... meh. Especially the type 4 looks way too generic.

Very good tapes but didn't have to buy one

Sorry to let you know but these are all fake. I have a lot of sealed new tapes as I used to live in Japan and have still sealed sets of JVC UF1 and UF2 all made in Japan. The original UFII.90 is cobalt-doped needle shaped gamma ferric oxide particles. They are amazing in sound. Love your show. Just realized how many people are into tapes. Think value wise I have a treasure trove of tapes especially metal tapes. I did not realize how much tapes were valued these days. Thanks to your show think Ill make some extra cash in these tough times. Will be watching your interesting show from now on. All the best.

How do Tony. I'm not a Patreon expert (or even a user) and you have hopefully read up on this more than me, but I'm aware of a clause in their TOS which might forbid the giveaway thing, and it's caught a few people out. Just wouldn't want you to fall foul of it, that's all. blog.patreon.com/patreons-stance-on-raffles-lotteries-and-giveaways If you already know then all good. Keep up the good work!

There is a used UFI-90 with almost the same shell and case as XFIV currently for sale on eBay www.ebay.de/itm/184328094133

Good video, but the music is too "easy" for the cassettes to sound good. Low high freq. energy and low dynamics.

Wasn't JVC part of Matsushita in the 90's... Perhaps that metal is a Panasonic

Cassette must Hi Res

A LOT OF CASSETTES ON THIS REVOX SOUND SMISHY. CAUSE THE AZIMITH IS OFF. OR RIGHT ON THE EDGE.

I have ordered more than £150 pounds worth of casstte and noe email :-( ...

You mention low wow and flutter, surely you couldn't hear that as you were using the same head to listen to the tape at the same time of recording it, there for there would have been none, you may pick it up if you listen again without recording....only saying

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