Maxwell Type 1 Cassettes - WTF!? - Knock Off / Type 0 Vs Genuine Maxell LN

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5 жыл бұрын

There are many different knock offs of classic cassettes sold back in the day. Sometimes it was a simple case of copying the packaging, changing a letter in the name (Sony To Somy) and shoving any cheap Type 0 cassette in there. I thought this "Maxwell" might be the same, but there's more to it...
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@lesrogers7310 5 жыл бұрын

I suppose one should use the Maxwell only for 'House' music....

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

😂

@QuadMochaMatti 5 жыл бұрын

Good to the last (beat) drop! Badum tss 😆...

@mersa316 5 жыл бұрын

Imagine trying to tell someone back in the day that always said "Maxwell" that it's actually "Maxell", get into a bit of an argument only to have their incorrect perception of reality reassured by their "Maxwell" tape.

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you see people taking about Maxwell cassettes regularly and you think it's the autocorrect on their phones...

@allenschmitz9644 5 жыл бұрын

@@CassetteComeback it's the silver hammer effect.

@peter_aka_hamamass 5 жыл бұрын

I am amazed at the lengths they go to, to copy the complete package 😮

@nvo7024 4 жыл бұрын

In February 1981 'High Fidelity' had an 'inside report' from HongKong's sweatshops (it's online at americanradiohistory site). Basically, the Chinese said that obtaining genuine branded molds, Japanese pancakes etc. was not an issue at all. They had it all (so they said); the issue was that in 1981 there wasn't enough demand for high quality fakes. I'm too young to remember 1981, but by 1988 fake Sonys were everywhere, and many indistinguishable from the originals... if there were any originals. But they still work like any cheap ferric should.

@nick_vee 5 жыл бұрын

Homer: Look at these low, low prices on famous name-brand electronics! Bart: Don't be a sap, Dad. These are just crappy knock-offs! Homer: Pfft! I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see one! And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny!

@wisteela 5 жыл бұрын

A classic

@Korium84 5 жыл бұрын

Put it in H!

@wisteela 5 жыл бұрын

@@Korium84 Maxhell :)

@chevycaprice87 5 жыл бұрын

Hey, check my brand new SONIC CHF-90 and TWD D-90 DYNHAMIC CASSETTE.

@303nitzubishi4 5 жыл бұрын

This tape came from Shelbyville

@wisteela 5 жыл бұрын

The attention to detail is great. I'm amazed by the quality too. Long live cassettes!

@goodun6081 5 жыл бұрын

" Maxwell" cassettes should come in a cheesy faux silver shell. You can provide your own silver hammer

@chevycaprice87 5 жыл бұрын

I have a true Maxwell C-90 HIGH DYNAMIC LOW NOISE HIGH OUTPUT Type 0 or even -1. Even with "noise reduction" check boxes on its label! In Russia its a legendary type zero.

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

Lovely. Treasure it.

@deccart5093 4 жыл бұрын

A schoolfriend once taped an album for me on a TKD tape

@andrewlittleboy8532 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this!

@deekando1068 5 жыл бұрын

Sounded great, and I admire your Pet Dragon :)

@therestorationofdrwho1865 5 жыл бұрын

I can see a difference in the moulding of the texture on the Maxwell tape. I’m convinced they’re from different factories.

@gwEmbassy 5 жыл бұрын

You’re right, the ‘Maxwell’ is cute

@platterjockey 4 жыл бұрын

This is the first time i've ever seen one of these! I'm impressed!

@ralphreinhardt6020 5 жыл бұрын

Another interesting and dare I say it, fun video. Thanks Tony keep up the great work sir!😃👍👍

@SirJeff 5 жыл бұрын

It's not just Maxwell, I've seen "Tony UHF"s floating around on carousell

@Stremyashisya 5 жыл бұрын

Много и много лет, у меня хранится блок нераспечатанных кассет Мaxell S-LN 90

@NOWThatsRichy 5 жыл бұрын

Just found your channel & subscribed, came up in my recommends after watching a Techmoan video, I still use cassettes occasionally, I have dozens of mixtapes I made from back in the 80's & early 90's, they are mainly TDK AD & ARX plus a few Chrome SA ones, they all still sound as clear as the day I recorded them. I'm sure that the older (made in Japan) cassettes were a far better quality than the more recent Chinese offerings!

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

The recent Chinese offerings aren't good quality at all. I did a video on them.

@vwestlife 5 жыл бұрын

What was the music you used for the recording?

@gideonbouwman4904 5 жыл бұрын

Very wierd music t.b.h. :P

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

It's from the KZfaq royalty free library called "The Wine, The cars, ah Montmartre" Wish I could use "real" music.

@Siri_Sathdamma_Sewhela 4 жыл бұрын

Great video 😍😍👍🏻 90’s Maxwell UR type 01 also sounded great with proper calibration on a decent cassette deck😍👍🏻👍🏻 with great levels coz it was very easy to make a good recording out of it😃😃👍🏻

@markphilpot4981 5 жыл бұрын

This just goes to show you that somebody can produce quality at a reasonable price. I know for a fact this would not happen back in the day. The lawyers for copyright infringement and trademark violations would be having a field day to say the least. It was very entertaining to have this video to watch. I agree you need to look at what you’re buying first. This was the best video I have seen on a knockoff brand. Keep up the good work! This hobby is so fun! I just love it!

@filip8297 4 жыл бұрын

I have that cassette but in a TDK's transparent shell. I had to throw the original shell because pins that were holding a pressure pad broke. The sound is excellent! The bass response is strong, and treble is soft. The tape is excellent for recording disco/synthpop/new wave music on it. It will show the real results if you are recording by using Dolby C, S, or dbx with the output level of +16dB. It looks like they used TDK tape to pack it into the Maxwell shell, as I noticed the transparent part of the head cleaner has a red line indicator. You could find those indicators in TDK’s 60-minute cassettes that were manufactured in Japan in the 80s. Dolby S is the best NR system for that because it has a signal to noise ratio of 85 dB, but I more prefer dbx for these tapes because it has a dynamic of 120dB. Thanks to that filter, it will show the real results.

@nakamichi682zx 4 жыл бұрын

Gosh, impressive!! With Dolby S it's quite a revelation. Great video as usual.

@CassetteComeback 4 жыл бұрын

I've determined it came from General Magnetics.

@jasejj 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder, an early attempt to farm out production to SKC or Saehan where someone got the spelling wrong on the logo, leaving a container load of defective, as opposed to fake tape that ended up being dumped on the market? ;)

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

We'll never know, but it's fun to guess 😀

@TB303 5 жыл бұрын

if only it came with some coffee

@Seele2015au 5 жыл бұрын

TB303 If that be the case, it would have been "Haxwell Mouse" coffee.

@QuadMochaMatti 5 жыл бұрын

@@Seele2015au with extra "flavour crystals".

@jaredjackson8526 5 жыл бұрын

Not in this house. 😂

@HammondDirk 3 жыл бұрын

I like the name Maxwell, fits also somehow. In the Netherlands, I remember as a kid an electronics store chain named "Maxwell", I had to think about the cassettes, but thought already "hey, that's different!". Later on, I learned about James Clerk Maxwell, and his laws for electromagnetic fields, probably essential for the invention of almost all electronic stuff, including the cassette recorder ;-)

@AndreDeLimburger 4 жыл бұрын

There used to be a electronics store called Maxwell in the Netherlands.

@TonysLawnCare215 4 жыл бұрын

A real life Lessen Learned ! never judge a book by its cover

@waynehickman8317 5 жыл бұрын

I love the smell of those Maxell LN 90s... :-)

@RoughJustice2k18 4 жыл бұрын

Something the cheap knock-offs do not have - is the fresh new smell.

@ianskeggs5294 5 жыл бұрын

That is rediculously good

@meurighailstone1999 5 жыл бұрын

What the.......? That tape sounds fantastic, the highs were crystal clear! I was expecting dropouts but I have to say they've put a lot of effort in to that tape.

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

I was very, very surprised. I only bought them for a laugh...

@jimkata77 5 жыл бұрын

They both sound fantastic!

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

Those that say Cassettes sound crap haven't listened to them properly calibrated in a good deck...

@jimkata77 5 жыл бұрын

I must agree. I've known about the importance of proper signal and azimuth adjustment for years but it wasn't until watching your videos that I now understand the importance of bias as well.

@numbers9to0 5 жыл бұрын

Why is the knockoff using more colors on the wrapping's print? This makes it more expensive to produce.

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

It's not technically a "knock-off", it would be if it actually said Maxell, but it doesn't. It's an "homage" that through more discussion I've concluded came from General Magnetics. They actually went on to make shells for the likes of Denon and That's. They also did a range of cassettes that look exactly like That's Suono...which it seems they made the shells for. I did a full record of the cassette and there were not drop outs, level problems and it was stable. All in all, this was a decent cassette.

@vwestlife 5 жыл бұрын

There's another knockoff of these Maxell cassettes with the brand name "Master": www.ebay.com/itm/163649576235

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but that really does look low quality 😀

@Sven.Bornemark 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent video! :-)

@LANCEofIRAQ Жыл бұрын

Very glad to see that someone outside Iraq at this centry speaks about maxwell brand. It was my second cassette that I bought in 1987 but with an old cassette disgin no tranagles like the next which you present here. Maxwell LN 60 was a successful cassette s which used for duplication and records in Baghdad and other Iraqies city. I was like a level of successful Singaporean Tony wang cassettes which later became the brand of Genral magnetices LTD. Do you know that Maxwell LN cassettes include a steel pin for Tape guide? Like Tony and old TDK while original Maxell's tape guide pic is from the same plastic from the body inside the cassete. Very thank you for this video. I'll look for other videos soon.

@Ruinwyn Жыл бұрын

And this comment explains why some of these knock offs are good. When politics limits the access to originals, it doesn't mean consumers in those markets are any less discerning. They can still recognise an ultra cheap product. By copying the original properly, you get a valuable looking product for markets without original, and secondary market in discount stores.

@FSM_Reviews 4 жыл бұрын

5:38. Just looking there, that's basically my beaten up TDK D-C90 on the left, and my Sony EF Super 60 on the right, in terms of tape color itself.

@miguelnglopes 5 жыл бұрын

I remember the BASK and Tony brands back in the early eighties. BASK turned out to be quite ok, for my limited knowledge and hardware at the time :)

@RoughJustice2k18 Жыл бұрын

Maxwell ... a "Smart" choice in alternative music, maybe? If so, good thinking 99.

@casualretrocollector 4 жыл бұрын

man I love your videos! I have a few cassettes I want to send to you for review (still sealed) how do I go about sending them to you?

@comicmania2008 2 жыл бұрын

I'd buy some, they both sounded good, but the Maxwell tape sounded just as good!

@megabojan1993 5 жыл бұрын

My very first cassette was this. My father bought it to me when I was just 6 years old. Edit: it was Maxell not Maxwell :)

@sevcaczech5961 5 жыл бұрын

I bet it was Maxell not Maxwell :)

@megabojan1993 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah it was maxell :)

@clayerik 5 жыл бұрын

You lucky that not Makwell, its another fake item, not so close but it is and quality was horroble.

@sevcaczech5961 5 жыл бұрын

@@clayerik the Maxwell isn't bad at all. You did not watch the video.

@clayerik 5 жыл бұрын

@@sevcaczech5961 ill watch the video, even it had good tape quality, fake it is after all.

@battra92 5 жыл бұрын

Such a strange little tape. I can't remember seeing any boots or knockoffs as a kid back in the day. The closest I can think of were Memex tapes (sold three to a pack) which made you think of Memorex, even though the label design was nothing like actual Memorex.

@petervanvalderen9136 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@MatthewNorthArchive 4 жыл бұрын

quite amazing.

@repairitdontreplaceit 5 жыл бұрын

just jumped on ebay and lots of maxell tapes listed as maxwell :)

@tarstarkusz 5 жыл бұрын

I just copied "Feels So Good" from cassette and I cued it up to the iTunes version and switched back and forth between the two with headphones on and I cannot hear a difference. I did the same thing with a CD rip of "Bad" by U2 to the same result. My 49yo ears that were never good to begin with might be the issue, but there are other cases where I can clearly hear the difference. These were captured using a fairly low end cassette deck. One nice thing about capturing from tape or phono is that you can get the original mix. There were quite a few songs where I just could not find an un-remastered copy of a song on iTunes. A lot of times the remastered version have clipping or even emphasise one track more than another that wasn't present on the original tape and LP releases.

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

The main reason for electronic progress is convenience coupled with profit. Those that say Cassettes sound crap haven't listened to them properly calibrated in a good deck...

@ahah1785 4 жыл бұрын

back in the day even knock offs had quality... unlike today.. amazing

@CassetteComeback 4 жыл бұрын

I dunno. Knock off watches can be pretty spectacular today 😁

@konstk 5 жыл бұрын

In 90s in Russia there were Master LN90 cassettes. Also very accurate copies of these Maxells. Too bad I don't have any just to test them.

@previousslayer 5 жыл бұрын

Master? Так там же вроде даже лента была уже чем надо, один канал не прописывался 😶... Или этих "мастеров" много разных видов?

@sikkepossu 5 жыл бұрын

That's for the Maxwell Smart's shoe answering machine recorder.

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

😀

@Okkie26 4 жыл бұрын

Why does the Maxell case says ' made in korea' and the cassette says 'Japan' ?

@shaun9107 5 жыл бұрын

The light brown tape might not last but all tapes sound tops here . The top end is surprising for type 1

@BilisNegra 5 жыл бұрын

When I have the time I want to share my childhood memories of -real- absolute knockoffs, that is, those where not even the brand name was changed...

@Ale.K7 5 жыл бұрын

I'm very surprised at how good this "Maxwell" sounds! As a child I was very curious about some old "KDK DC-60" tapes my dad had that were copies of TDKs from the seventies, both shell and J-card (but NOT tape quality, it was light brown, completely matt, sounded horrible). Then, to my amusement, a new wave of Chinese knock-off brands arrived to my country (Argentina) in the nineties, especially (not at all)"Hi-Fi" systems, radios, boomboxes, portable TVs and cassettes. I couldn't pass the oportunity to redeem a lot of hard earned arcade tickets for a new KDK tape in the mid to late 90s! In this case, if I remember correctly, the J-card was a copy from TDK A series from the '80s and the shell was a lazy, low quality copy also from old TDKs (black shell, white label). The less-than perfect copy was somewhat of a disappointment, as my dad's old KDKs looked a lot more like real TDKs... I still have it, of course :-) (tape is darker, sound is not nearly as bad as older "type 0s", but it has a lot of dropouts).

@ambientoccluser 5 жыл бұрын

Did you checked heads for tape shedding? The one thing i learned from knock offs, is they tend to be good at first, but then clog the heads with residue and sound gets muddled.

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

Going to do a full record on the Maxwell today, then have a look.

@RussKnize 5 жыл бұрын

I give them credit for being "honest" about which series they were copying. If they'd called it XLI, I'd have more of an issue with it.

@ianmi4i727 9 ай бұрын

What about the Maxwell's Equations??? All them rule electromagnetic phenomena. Cassettes are electromagnetic devices. So everything has sense here!!! :D

@vinkoivomilicdiaz6932 Жыл бұрын

I remember those "versions" based on the original LN.

@apislapis 5 жыл бұрын

Free with every replica 1980s Daily Mirror. Still have my cassettes and cassette decks, so I had to sub.

@macdaniel6029 5 жыл бұрын

0:43 ^^ LMAO. Nice one.

@SkeletonSyskey 5 жыл бұрын

𝐌𝐚𝐱𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 - Break The ™ Barrier.

@nihonam 5 жыл бұрын

I've been concerned buying this cassettes, but once gave a chance and been positively surprised. And I liked it old time look. But later still prefered picking Maxell.

@daviddanser7801 5 жыл бұрын

14:48 if you actually pause the video and look at the difference between the reel tape and the knockoff tape, for some reason the real Maxell cassette the letter A is slightly off center whereas the knockoff Maxwell cassette tape the letter A is perfectly centered strange

@previousslayer 5 жыл бұрын

Tony, that UD is 100% real. It was OEMed by Panggung (or whatever it was called back then) in Indonesia. Notice the shell, it looks similar to 90s Maxells. BTW the Singaporean Maxwell could very well be General Magnetics in its early days (you know, the one that supplied some tape and shells to Denon and Taiyo Yuden and BASF in the 90s) 🤔

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

Makes sense about the Gen Mag stuff actually. I've recently recorded the whole cassette and found it to be actually very good, with no dropouts or loss of signal. Upon opening, it seems that it might be newer than the wrapper suggests. A clear slipsheet, modern looking hubs with those small "peg" retainers. As for the UDI, I've seen a UDE Excel too which seems to have the same cassette in. I'm beginning to think that that UDI I showed is licenced by Maxell, but is not in any way made by them, like with the Panggung "Maxell" UR which is common now.

@previousslayer 5 жыл бұрын

@@CassetteComeback Phew, just finished another "short" 🤣 writeup on TH. On the topic of Maxwells, just curious: were the hubs more like these: www.ez647.sk/cc/cievky/basf_old_w.JPG or more like these: www.ez647.sk/cc/cievky/other_acme_china.JPG ? No.1 would indicate that it's a BASF collaboration. Quite understandable for SE Asia in general because BASF had a factory in Indonesia, right. And bootlegs. And those weird "Toyota SF" cassettes (popular in the post-Soviet community), one variation being a Goldstar and another one "made in Japan" in a rough shell but with surprisingly good tape wound on BASF hubs: c-90.org/FOR_PROGRAMMER/tapes/%CD%E5%E8%E7%E2%E5%F1%F2%ED%FB%E5%20%ED%E0%F3%EA%E5%20%E7%E2%E5%F0%E8%20-%20Unidentified/Toyota%20SF/0/cassettes_1_0.jpg content.onliner.by/forum/2655518/800x800/87d0f96a281d5b902631b8f1e4234258.jpeg Probably from the same pile/manufacturer/region of origin. No. 2 would likely indicate that it's a Chinese/Hong Kong collaboration. Understandable for GenMag because they had some Chinese/HK DNA and used some components from there, at least in the early days... Phew 😅

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

The hubs are a hybrid of those two. The retaining peg of the first one but they look like the second one.

@previousslayer 5 жыл бұрын

@@CassetteComeback then it's BASF, most likely 🙂 This would explain the quality

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

Just posted an update, mentioning you in it 😉

@MikeBracewell 5 жыл бұрын

Listening to the two through a set of pretty decent AKG phones, the knock off has noticeably richer bass & marginally better detail. OK, your comparing a brand-new tape against a pre-used one but, either the Maxwell is the bargain of the (last) century or my ears need de-waxing. I've gotta say you're bloody good at these videos, you make a very geeky subject fascinating. Thank you!

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it, watch the update video as it seems these weren't as cheaply made as we thought...

@JamesE707 5 жыл бұрын

The fake has a crude pressure pad and no shield behind it. (Ooops - it has a shield, sorry) Until I saw you videos I was not aware of these fakes - all interesting stuff Tony!

@allenschmitz9644 5 жыл бұрын

Now if only they could come up with a good knock off of a Sony TCM-200DV Cassette-Corder I would be in CASSETTE HEAVEN.

@tobymummert3035 5 жыл бұрын

It makes me scratch my head and kinda wonder out of all the many cassettes I have in my collection that may actually be knock-offs! That's a scary thought! I know off the top of my head I have to TDK AD cassettes from 1982 that look exactly the same inside and out except for the tape itself. The one tape is light brown and the other tape is darker brown....Hmmm.....🤔

@superbrighteye 5 жыл бұрын

By the way do you know the factory source of those lidl SQ tapes 8-10 years ago. got a bunch of them when they really got rid of them 3 casettes for 1 euro.the sound was good to my ears little bit like a basf flavor.always curiuous where they actualy came from

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

I think those were made by Raks. Raks had a link with BASF, so that could explain it.

@superbrighteye 5 жыл бұрын

could be soundwise feels like it i first tested a pack to be save thinking probably a bad cheap brand in it i made a recording on it was satisfied and went right back to get more of those SQ chrome tapes of those only 3 days week deals from lidl in that year. SQ are stil on internet at 10 times the price i see now might be fun to test one but could off course be nowadays another tape in it its 8 years later so we wil never know for sure.@@CassetteComeback

@kiirunavaara 5 жыл бұрын

There are at least two versions of Maxell SQ, one being made by Saehan, and the other, more common one comes in a Raks shell and case. The tape in the Raks version does indeed behave very similar to a true chrome, but I'm not sure whether it really is one or not.

@kozkoz7776 5 жыл бұрын

Did you ever try weighting the cassette tapes on a digital scale

@ianskeggs5294 5 жыл бұрын

Tony, I’ve ordered some Socimag dc11, I’ll let you know my thoughts. I have a Yamaha kx580 se. It’s gonna be a first for me, but I’m going to record without Dolby

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

Use the auto cal on that and they'll do a good job.

@bensspaceagency4606 5 жыл бұрын

Looks like it’s from an alternate universe. Who knows, maybe in that alternate universe Maxell is seen as the knockoff?

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

😀 right next to Somy, CDK and BOSF.

@johnnyg1700 5 жыл бұрын

Funny you should say that Ben...In one of the Mandela Effect videos I watched, many remember the brand called Maxwell back in the day. Me personally, I remember Maxell as it is now.

@previousslayer 5 жыл бұрын

@@CassetteComeback ...and it's not alternate at all 😄: item.jd.com/17208690466.html

@esotericaudiophile3884 5 жыл бұрын

@@johnnyg1700 I used Maxwell as a kid, its great seeing this physical residual...

@karolok 4 жыл бұрын

@@previousslayer ha ha ha, where do they get these things from?

@nalamo1000 5 жыл бұрын

i have one of those LN tapes. it sounds decent

@paulkane2391 5 жыл бұрын

That is definitely designed to create confusion in the marketplace - This would be an obvious copyright infraction in the USA. The difference may be in how well the tape ages - I have some Denon HD8 cassettes that I recorded in the early 1980's which still sound great. Check back with the Maxwell LN 90 in 40 years and see how it sounds. Just a theory. Great video.

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

I don't think you're wrong, but it's all about storage.

@blaizejosh 5 жыл бұрын

Can you please do a video on 100 Minutes (50 Minutes Per Side), 110 Minutes (55 Minutes Per Side), 120 Minutes (60 Minutes Per Side) & 180 Minutes (90 Minutes Per Side)? Is the TDK D-180 cassette a good cassette or a type 0 cassette? The 1988 edition of the Maxell UR-120 that is black instead of a see-through shell is a rare cassette. The 1989-2005 see-through Maxell UR-120 cassettes are more common, than the 1988 edition.

@4130aykut 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Tony, do you got the Chance to do a review of the turkish Raks Cassettes?

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

I have a few, and they're really good, but they're hard to find. If I get some more, I will definitely do a video on them.

@4130aykut 5 жыл бұрын

i got the chance to get plenty of them, specially 90-92 types. If youre interested, tell me

@josephfrye7342 3 жыл бұрын

looks like this image of knock off of familiar brands we know needs to be trended on twitter.

@josephfrye7342 3 жыл бұрын

Whoa type 0 i think i have a feeling non of them are type 1 to 4 but type 0

@mbvideoselection 5 жыл бұрын

I do wonder if when a major manufacturer finished with a certain shell design or label template, whether they sold them on to the less regulated markets of the world, such as the orient, middle east and Africa, for them to do as they wish, with a blind eye turned? Maybe even selling off the equipment that made earlier tape formulations? You know, even a modern, English company would have trouble replicating those inlay graphics with such accuracy. All the text would be in Arial and Tahoma.

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, someone could have sold the molds and printing plates off.

@Djd_Records_Zone 5 жыл бұрын

i would like to hear dolby s on a deck that don't have it on. wonder how off that would sound

@gideonbouwman4904 5 жыл бұрын

Just a question, what tape would you recommend for car use? I recorded some music onto my box of Maxell XLii tapes, on the deck, it sounds wonderful with Dolby C, but with Dolby C in my BMW, it sounds like total garbage...

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

Road noise sort of cancels out any tape hiss. I just use a decent, basic ferric with no NR personally.

@gideonbouwman4904 5 жыл бұрын

@@CassetteComeback I will search some basic tapes then, now i only have a box of TSK Sa-90's, the Maxell XLii's and the vintage maxell xlii 90 epitaxial, the last ones sound the best on my Denon, maybe some cheap D90's from TDK will do the job?

@previousslayer 5 жыл бұрын

BASF and the likes in those "85°C" (temperature resistant) shells?

@82abn34 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@stevenholt1867 4 жыл бұрын

I wonder how Maxell House would compare to Nescafe.

@mbvideoselection 5 жыл бұрын

Then there's various SONY knock-offs that don't even bother to change the name at all, not even one letter!

@BilisNegra 5 жыл бұрын

True, I was a victim as a child once or twice, but it didn't take me long to tell the difference. The catch was the wrapper, some were quite well cloned. The moment you opened the thing up, you noticed you had been ripped off... But if the wrapper let you see the actual cassette through it, you typically could notice the difference quite easily.

@johnstark5324 5 жыл бұрын

I'll be damned! Needed more bias? Sounded pretty good. I would have never guessed!

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

I was stunned. Still am...

@VIDSTORAGE 4 жыл бұрын

It all depends on the quality of the tape formula and it must be pretty good along with a total copy of the Maxell look.... Maybe they will come out with another called TCK and Suny

@CassetteComeback 4 жыл бұрын

I think there are knock offs with those names believe it or not.

@VIDSTORAGE 4 жыл бұрын

@@CassetteComeback Aye it is too obvious to not use those names so my thoughts were not original

@Inaflap 5 жыл бұрын

This knock-off with the similar sounding name reminded me of an advert for the original Maxell tapes. See this watch?v=Gib916jJW1o It also reminded me of the time my mum thought she'd got a bargain from a Del Boy in the local market... Palmolive soap... turned out to be 'Pam and Olive' soap. It was rubbish soap too. I'm surprised at how good that knock-off tape sounds. However that lower record sensitivity would have been noticeable in recordings made on the typical auto level controlled boomboxes most people were using.

@allenschmitz9644 5 жыл бұрын

Lol' a 5 star knockoff...Iv been waiting for decades for this.

@therestorationofdrwho1865 5 жыл бұрын

I have a Maxwell tape from back in around 1998.

@therestorationofdrwho1865 5 жыл бұрын

Omg no I just checked it and it’s a real Maxell LN 90 like yours!! Amazing. I’ve also got a newer Maxell UR 60 tape.

@eduardogonzalez7204 4 жыл бұрын

Hola. Amigo podrías subir tus vídeos en español ,ya que son muy interesantes,te sigo hace un tiempo.desde Chile. Saludos 😉😉

@buretehudesi 4 жыл бұрын

Maxell always smells specific and tooths on the rolls are rounded.

@victorwilson6826 4 жыл бұрын

Maxwell House Tapes...good to the last play.

@seand67 3 жыл бұрын

Wowwwww

@MVVblog2 5 жыл бұрын

Hahah now we have cassette cinesium position!!

@JamesE707 5 жыл бұрын

Been listening to both (dolby out), the "Maxwell" sounded good!, I wonder who really made these tapes? Tape production is a specialist job, surely these must have been made by one of the big players?

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

Watch the follow up video 😀

@keithjones7810 Жыл бұрын

This may have been genuine Maxell with a spelling error by the company printing the J Card and labels.

@guillermosanchez8843 5 жыл бұрын

Back in the early 80s you could go to a grocery store in Mexico City and buy a packet of four SONI cassettes.

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

I've seen "Tony" cassettes too 😀

@kevinjenkins6136 4 жыл бұрын

I've seen these around before

@RetroAndMore89 5 жыл бұрын

I'm owning two maxwell ELN 60, bought around the 90's in Croatia.

@scaleop4 5 жыл бұрын

i worked out that i have over 690 cassettes...think i might be hording them at this point. BUT I LIKE CASSETTES TO MUCH TO GET RID OF THEM.

@ChronoTango 2 ай бұрын

It bothers me a little that the “w” isn’t styled as an upside down “m,” but really for what logical reason would it be?

@chekiechekie 5 жыл бұрын

Do you have some of these for sale? You should have opened it up to look at the spools... it might be a korean OEM?

@CassetteComeback 5 жыл бұрын

Good call. I may have a look inside one. I may put some up for sale, but I only have a few and am quite happy to keep them now I know they're decent.

@chekiechekie 5 жыл бұрын

@@CassetteComeback if you do take one apart, let us know what it is, Tony!