The comeback of cassette comeback!

Great to see you again, Tony. Enjoyed seeing cassettes from my home country, and good to see we don’t make Type Zero’s!😂😂😂😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I received a brand new fountain pen from China only last week. Very tactile. Still own 2 cassette decks and 2 Walkman type players. Something satisfying about using them. Particularly when you play a cassette on a truly hi fi system. Guys who have never heard this format before are amazed that old tech can sound so good.

Can't believe it. So happy to have Tony back.

So happy you're back! We still have so much to explore in the world of cassette oddysies.

Your presentation in these videos is always excellent Tony. Great to see another!

Great to see the master at work. Thank you, Tony!

Thankyou Daniel. You gifted all of us with a great new video and the opportunity to see these in action on a good deck.

Finally a new video Tony. I'm desperately looking at the old ones for the fifth time. So thanks a lot!!!

Good to see my home country could make decent cassettes . Looking forward to seeing the Philips ones tested as I’ve used The European ICM/ Philips and found them to be excellent with the correct bias settings .FSX / UCX .

Wohoo Tony´s back! What a lovely surprise.

Many thanks Toney, great to see the Dragon in action again.

yes yes yes finally a video again about cassettes, love these videos.

good to have you back on the tube tony. hope there a many more tapes to come (:

Ah yes! Cassettes from my home country!! 🇦🇺It's good to see that Greencorp tapes are decent! There is a few more Aussie tapes (not Aussie made though) that I thought of, like Acme XHG that were sold in Woolworths back in the 90s and 00s, and of course Cannon Power! Nice seeing a new video Tony btw!

Thank you, Daniel, your stuff will spawn not one but two videos in this only intermittently active channel. And thank you, Tony, for coming back once again even if you're probably pretty busy.

The 'master' is back. Another great video. I never gave up writing with pens. Helps with my creativity. In actual fact I got back into typing using my old Olympia Traveller DeLux S typewriter that I got for my birthday circa 1986

Thanks for video Tony. I think you made a good point about the pitfalls of 3 head decks and the temptation to be overly critical when comparing the tape to the source. Assuming that we're primarily fans of music, what's most important is that the recording sounds good (enough) when we decide to sit down and listen again.

Hi tony! nice to see a new cassette video up! good video as always! looking forward to the next videos! if i ever come across some unique cassettes in abundnce i will certainly be shipping you some!

I still love useing tapes! I love the sound of them. Over the years!

Great review Tony I'm Australian & never bothered about our tapes.Nice to see a refreshing look at them Glad your back. All the best to you mate Regards Kerry

Never gets old, keep up the good work 👍

Thank you Daniel! Thank you Tony! A lot.

Excellent video Tony. Very nice to have you back!

Great you see a new video. I work in tech too, had a couple of Psions back in the day (and still use them on occasion), and still use pen and paper frequently. I'm fond of the tactile. And each of these has its own area where it can't be beaten by something more modern. I've even been making mix tapes lately, there's no other medium that can start where you left off with a press of a button.

A new video! This has made my week. Thanks Tony

Happy Days! A Cassette Comeback video. Making my day.

G'day Tony, from Sydney Australia! Seeing Greencorp just jogged my memory, I have a VERY old can of "Record Clean Anti-static spray", and I knew I saw that name somewhere, sure enough, it was Made in Australia by Greencorp Magnetics.

19:09 That Sony UX sure is beautiful. Sony made some very respectable cassettes with a mechanical design of an aesthetically timeless appeal.

Great to see you back Tony! Cheers! Tony Cruz

Glad you found writing again! I must write or make physically written notes nearly every day - back to basics Tony, love it!

11:52: NL would probably mean Noise Level (also makes sense in regards to the dB values next to it)

Nice one! A new cassette Comeback.

Great to see you back! Another fantastic video. Can't wait for the next part. 👍🏻

I actually have this Greencorp Mastering Cassette at 4:18 in my collection of 99 different sealed cassettes to date.

Yes!! A new video! Thank you Tony!!!

Great to see you again!

Almost fell off my chair when this video popped up!

Thank you both Tony and Daniel !

Welcome back Tony!!

Nice to see you back, mate! But well, Australian cassettes, it's great but you'll have to put your deck upside down in order to use them! (PS: And I use a fountain pen every day.)

I have used those Opus cassettes and they certainly didn't sound that good for me! Of course I was using a boombox which used a permanent magnet erase head! I was unfortunate to have such a device, it gave me much pleasure during my youth and I remember that I quickly learnt that if a tape was recorded on a hi-fi system, it sounded much better on my boombox compared to recording on the boombox itself.... So I carried a spare tape everywhere I went because you could never be sure where you might end up and what hi-fi equipment would be there. I have seen you test tapes that I have tried to use in the past which sounded like crap to me on the sub par equipment available to me back then and can't believe how good they sound on a much better machine! In fact, just about all cassettes you have tried sound great but for some reason I feel that a boombox really seperated the really good from the really bad... It's almost like the boombox had a preference for quality tape.... Not all boomboxes were terrible, I came across a 90's sharp which also had a CD player which someone threw out and I took it home and took it apart to get at it's circuits for spare parts, only to realise that this boombox didn't have a permanent magnet erase head... It actually used an AC biased erase head! I really wanted to put it back together to test it's performance but it was a bit too far gone.... I didn't expect to find this feature in a 90's boombox because they were already on their way out of fashion but it seems that sharp was still putting in a lot of effort... It's circuit boards were stuffed with melf type resistors! This is a high end component usually found in automotive equipment where reliability is paramount.... I'm now keeping an eye out for another one of these boomboxes because I'm really interested in knowing how good they were.... And on the topic of those DEX cassettes, I looked up blank cassette sales some time ago and came across DEX Audio and they had blank tapes for sale on their website, they are located here in Melbourne and might still be around... I wouldn't be surprised... I didn't purchase any of their cassettes, plain white tapes just don't do it for me.... A cassette is more than just what is recorded on it... That's why we are still here today talking about them....

Love to see you back tony!

Good to have you back!

Welcome back, Tony!

very very cool. never seen an aussie cassette before. thank you for sharing with us!

I just checked my collection and I have a 'G Tape' made by Grrencorp but is a Type II Chrome. Can't add pics which sicks. Great vid as usual!! More please

A pencil from Japan- Hong-Kong etc will work .

Thank you Tony. Had not heard of these brands. All the best to you.

Yes the master of blank tapes are back!

Good to see you back Tony! Hope you're doing well

Very nice of you to share this with us again Tony. I really missed seeing something new from you 😁 I really dig those pens you showed us. That takes me back to primary school and having to submit written reports scored on penmanship as well as content. Can you tell me the brand name and are they cartridge or bladder types? 🙏 Peace

He's back!

Tony, I knew you could list out where that Alexett was made when I sent it to you :-) It's a Forward shell, just as all the other tapes in this video, except for the DEX which I don't know anything about. But the tape in the Alexett could be anything, they only bought C-zeroes from different sources and loaded them from pancakes. There are later Opus cassettes which are cheaper China/Hong Kong products that are neither Forward nor Greencorp. So I think Opus was not a Greencorp brand. It probaly belonged to that "Musicway Corp" which is listed on the back side, and for this series they happened to get the cassettes from Greencorp.

I used to love unwrapping a TDK SA90.

I love that tartan shell, it's very cool.

Yesterday I was looking if there was any new video, and you did it today!!!!

Sunday morning cassette video! 😁

Welcome back Tony!

Great to watch another one of your vids Tony, Missed yer buddy

Salut, pe asa deck poti sa inregistrezi orice caseta. Multumim pentru ce faci.

Yahoo!! A new video from Cassette Comeback!!! As per usual, a great analysis of tapes I'd never heard of. Wasn't that sort of "tartan" shell of the opus also found on Sony CF cassettes? It looked very familiar. And I'm not responsible for the Dex cassettes! Dex is usually what I'm called!!! 😂

I would like Daniel to send me some goodies to test for him.😁 But maybe Daniel doesn't know about my channel or maybe my channel is not worth it because it doesn't rise to the level of yours. Congrats. I'm a big fan of your channel too.🥰

Great content 👌 Half hour of entertainment 👍

Eee! Welcome back our kid!

You may already know, but Dex Audio are a CD/DVD and Cassette duplicator based in Melbourne, Australia. From their website: "Dex is also proud to offer blank C-90’s and C-60’s direct to the public which can be purchased with or without cases. We are also able to custom-wind cassettes to order please contact our customer service team for more information." Don't know who makes the actual tape though...

That's so nice. Real friends. Let's have fun in the channel. Note: I remember those cassetes from the 80's.🇵🇹 edit: philips

Love your videos! I'm trying to get back into cassettes because of nostalgia rsrsrs.... currently, MD is my daily driver

Opus brand covered audio cassettes and video cassettes. I never thought of them as premium.

Cassette Comeback comeback.

Great video Tony, love the national anthem recommendation. Looking forward to the next video. Cheers

We missed you :)

Nice one as usual Tony. I have a few Greencorp and Opus tapes in my collection. I didn't consider them high end at the time but i might go back a try some new recordings now that I have decent decks. Regarding Dex, they were a CD manufacturing plant in Melbourne and they also did mastering work. In 1993, my musical partner at the time and I released our first album on CD. Dex Audio did the CD manufacturing.

Hi Tony, I just happened to come across the video again, still enjoyed it 2nd time round👍 Near the end, you said you were planning on doing a video on the Philips CD Master 90 Cheers from Australia Simon

The Green Corp logo is extremely similar to the Minolta logo😮

Nice one Tony, gud vid...

Thanks Tony.!

The Greencorp C90 with the blue leader and the dots indicating the side A and B invokes AGFA vibes.

I don't remember the Greencorp brand, but I remember seeing the Opus and G-Tape branded tapes down here back in the day. Tho most of the tapes I bought BITD were Philips. Go figure.

Have a little stash of the Philips CD Master in C-60 version - very great sound, they make Can't wait to see your take on them, especially with the big boys' decks

@Cassette Comeback : Where do I purchase a copy of the song you used? What an awesome song.

Oh no, not Music Way products, oh deary deary me. I think G-Tape cassettes were made by Music Way and I remember them being pretty mediocre tapes. That said, I have a cassette carrying case that I believe was made by Music Way, and that tape case, bought for me in 1992 when I was 8, was my constant companion when I was a teenager.

Welcome back and thanks for the upload. Do you remember the pens with the digital watch face built in from the 80s...hybrid analogue and digital tech

Thank you for another free video.

Great to see this brill keep on love it

As always superb. I am totally of this era and have many tapes with recordings from radio. Rarely missed a tape session for Coldcut Solid Steel in the 90s however I clearly didn’t appreciate enough the technicalities and as such am revitalised . Thanks a mill. Plus was there a time when any old company would knock out freebie cassettes or try and grab a piece of the pie by sticking their name on (probably) the cheapest shite cassettes. I’m thinking of the MP3 player thing where you could buy a Lego one or a Tetleys tea piece of tut. Are there some gems out there, love to know if you can shed some light or even hopefully have some. Cheeers and thanks.

Glad your back. Where are you based? You sound quite Yorkshire.

As off today , I'm looking forward to future vieos on the PHILLIPS and the newer Green Corp. Tapes.

😮 I hope 🙏 so !!

Well I never knew that Hong Kong was part of the UK until.97.

I was thinking just how accurate tape coatings have to be to prevent drop-outs from occurring when the tape is moving at only 1 7/8 ips. I thought both of those tapes were pretty good but it's not the same as listening directly to the sound.

Both cassettes sounded great to me i would have been very happy with both .I had the same psion once quality bit of kit when i was at school i enjoyed collecting and trading pens i had a nice gold nib sheafer fountain pen but the nib was very so i sold it for about £2 profit to someone i never liked much .

Good grief! Tony's back!!!

Where do you sell your music? I would like to buy some if you have cd or cassettes of it.

How do you know if someone is bootlegging or counterfeiting cassette tapes? I bought some cassette tapes on ebay and they are pretty rare. They have print on the cassette and labels and everything ;however, I am not sure if the seller is making more copys. He did post for sell another copy of one of the cassettes I purchased. I am not sure if it's another copy he had around or he made copy himself i.e. he bootlegged a casette. I am not sure if you can make a video on bootlegged cassettes. I know back in the day when I was a kid people in my neighborhood people would sell bootleg movies, cds and cassettes, so I know it's possible to bootleg or counterfeit cassettes.

Japan got a lot of 10-minute cassettes. Why is that?

Are Chrome tapes being made anywhere???

Nice cassette

About bl**dy time lol

P.S. - agree with you about pens.