Been missing you mate! Always glad to see any review you have on whatever you get. It’s fun to see stuff I’ve never seen. Don’t stop doing this! This is loved and fun! God Bless you Tony! Happy Valentines Day mate

The Dessauer Chroma Tapes already sounded as distorted when they were new. I remember buying one in 1992 and being quite disappointed. This was definitely no BASF tape, otherwise my deck would have made a way better recording on it :-) Dessau coated their own chrome tapes a bit into the 1990's, and the CrO2 pigment used for it is reported to come from the Orwo plant in Wolfen. I'm a bit unsure about the CrO2 pigment from Wolfen because what is always reported by professionals is that BASF and Du Pont were the only makers of the pigment, but that might be a view from a Western perspective. The shell on this Chroma Tape comes from Carl Schneider Kunststoffe GmbH in Ober-Ramstadt-Rohrbach (near Frankfurt), a company which also made reels for BASF open reel tape, as well as they were "helping out" BASF on plastic parts for their cassette shells, sometimes even with complete shells, you need a trained eye to distinguish them... and this does also explain why the hubs are looking so BASF-ish.

Something must be wrong with my ears today because I thought the first tape (tectro) sounded fine and the 2nd tape was distorting badly once you turned up the level. It also coloured the music a lot. But with the first tape, I could not hear any dropouts or any distortion. I thought it sounded just fine. I even went back and listened to it twice.

TecTro cassette says it was made for "Kodi Diskontläden GmbH".

I own a Dutch audio buyers guide from 1980 and one of the chapters is about cassettes,all types of cassettes were tested,all brands. tested on 8 different aspects shown in a diagram.

awesome as always! I really missed your videos. I was checking KZfaq everyday to see if you uploaded something. Thanks for this, it's always fun to watch your tape reviews :)

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Why not try one of those phone apps that can use on holiday, to translate menus, etc. You know, point your phone camera at it and you see the translated text? Maybe a Google Translate app exists.

Love the case with that Dessauer Cassette. Looks like some pre-recorded tape cases. I wish more good blank cassettes had come with similar cases.

I've got that book. First edition was published in 1983. WKL was and it's still on marketplace. But that book is in Poland very rare. I bought it in 1988 and it's still in use. Very good book.

Hello Tony, cool video! Thank you! I have been wondering what was happening as new videos stopped coming and I see that you have a new project. So good luck with your new channel and please do not forget us! The book you mention looks great! I which there were something like this available in English to check out MOLs and SOLs! Take care!

wow! nice one Tony, what a surprise to see the tapes on the chair. I wanted to say thank you for the channel really, youtube is fabulous because we can choose what we watch, and I am grateful for the effort you put into these videos, thank you for no adverts! I did watch the first gamer video, actually I am not into these games but I did watch to the end and will go back for another go, please god don't let me get hooked on games the way tape has taken me! z

Thanks for the videos, been enjoying them all! Love seeing all the tapes and equipment--learning a lot. I have three questions for future videos (that shouldn't cost you anything) asking the following questions: What's the best tape/type to use if you are a frequent re-recorder? What's the best way to erase an entire tape, if you'd just like to blank the whole thing? And a small tutorial on moving your tapes into Audacity, would be cool to see. Keep up the great work.

I really like the last one you recorded on,I’d like 5 or more of them,guess I have to go to 🇵🇱.

I was in Munich last year on vacation with my family and visiting the record shops. One had this small area in the shelf with a few sealed early 00's TDK D and late 90's BASF/Emtec Sound I's for sale. But there was this SK one (the same in the video actually) but unfortunately I decided not to take it in the end in case it was a type 0. I do regret my decision now, feels like I've missed out on an interesting opportunity to explore this cassette myself. The owner also said he had some sealed TDK and Maxell type II's but they were in his house and unless I was planning to buy lots of them I would have to wait till another day and come. Problem was the next day was Christmas eve and we were due to leave for Rome on Christmas Morning, and that a teenager is certainly not going to be able to convince his parents to fork out 30+ euros for ten cassettes...

Congratulations, gorgeous Polish book! Actually I would like to have a book like this, I read and speak Polish, even though it is not my native language, my native is Russian. But I learned Polish and even had been in Poland as a tourist about 19 years ago. So definitely I would be able to understand this book.

I could definitely see the Chinese manage to make a decent tape stock. If it can be done in the US and Europe, China can easily do it. It's just a question of whether some factory owner will want to cater to the tape duplicators in the West with a good stock they can get affordably to put in album releases. Whether they'd make blanks available too or not, depends on whether they think it would be worth the investment, but I could still see a company like Tapeline load up some C-0s with it to sell as blanks.

Is another one bible of magnetic tapes in Polish: Barbara Libura - "Taśmy Magnetofonowe". You can read for example how is built magnetic tape, about active layer, electroacoustic properties of magnetic tapes. Part III discusses how to measure tapes and what is reference tapes. The book is from 1976 and there are not many pictures (B&W), but there are a lot of technical drawings. Your book is later and very good, I have my own copy too.

Great video!