the Denon´s do coloured the sound, the reason why they stoped having calibration decks in mid 80´s like the 33MH or 44MH or close to it, the doble i don´t like them because of the auto-reverse each time it rotates the head azimuth is off (tune)

Definitely agree on the auto-reverse issue. i don't care so much if sound is coloured or not, as long as it is musical and pleasant :) @@RUfromthe40s

@@rollingtroll i also don´t mind it, it corrects not having calibration to a certain point, but Denon decks do sound very good, i have two but sold a early model which was very good with calibration, and have a good frequency response, other brand that is forgoten and had very good decks is Kenwood ,Sony ES doesn´t came near them ,and i own a TC-K555ESL or similar ,not sure now

@@RUfromthe40s I never heard a Sony ES deck I liked. Even the most expensive ones are outperformed by a simple NAK CR1 (literally). Sony's audio from the mid 80's and beyond, give or take a few super upmarket preamplifiers, just isn't good sounding. Very reliable though. I think the Denon DR-M30/40hx are extremely good decks for the money. My 'goto' is the Aiwa AD-F800/810 though. They are dirt cheap and actually great. JVC also did some good, affordable decks. The KD-D55 for instance sounds Nakamichi good and no one thinks twice about it. Another fun series; Akai GX-F31/51/71/91. Even the humble F31 sounds great. The world has found out though, they are going up in price.

@@rollingtroll it´s kind of true, my father had all top end models from nakamichi and i had the 680 ZX, 700ZXL and the cassette deck 1(maybe the best built) the DRAGON sold it after 6 monthes before it stoped working ok, but i only bought it because i had not enough money to buy a Z-7000 from TEAC, any pioneer since 1976 top end model are better than all nakamimichi´s, i´m not saying they sound bad but as i use them since 1974 i know they are far from being the best decks and built with the cheapest material but my father liked it only to be surprised when he bought a B215 FROM REVOX TO HIS LATE 70´S B SERIES SYSTEM ,sorry for the caps lock it get stucked , it´s chinese 3€ and after 17 years is failing

Awesome! Still not done editing the Aliexpress one that I have been working on. I'll get there!

@@rollingtroll I really look forward to seeing the dodgy tapes! Take your time, I am subscribed anyways!

i have a CR-7a and a 1000ZXL ,a the same but special edition in gold, a 1000 from 74 ,a ZX-9 ,a cassette deck 1(this maybe i´m going to keep it) and the Dragon´s i had, one in 12 of 1982 and other in january of 1994 ,sold them fast as after 6 monthes im notice some problems and had two because the seller told me that the 90´s version had been sold and also have a RX-909 that was told that they are very rare, but all of this were from my father and he passed away recentelly so all are for sale but working at a 100% perfect ,all were restored and the 1000ZXL gold was never put to use but the prices for what i have seen aqre from 8.000€ to 10.000€ for the crap i´ve seen being sold for 5.000€ , mine was a 700ZXL ,a BX-2, a 680ZX, and a DR-10 the last series they released,this i´m not going to sell them but forget about the dragon they are a incredible headache as decks they are the worst i´ve seen, any pioneer akai or TEAC or Revoxare so better that i can´t compare them with such a crap or nakamichi as a brand, i have other components but those who work still i´m keeping them, by the way ,you´re not interested on the DRAGON turntable or the CD player as i have them for sale too ,10.000€ each and yes i already sold a lot for this price but like new not already destroyd like other i´ve seen for sale for half the price but i think the value is maybe 50€ for the look of having a nakamichi ,no matter if it doesn´t work or do work but with a lot of vibrations heard while playing or recording

Awesome! There are a few cassette videos on my channel! I would love to get tapes from the us but shipping and import duties are often prohibitive. I am by no means rich and don’t want to spend 20, 30 bucks on a tape. If this channel made me any money things would be different but it does not 😄

Use headphones! :)

@@rollingtroll I was 😉

Haha, yeah that's definitely the loser of the bunch. Expect more laughs soon, I did an order on a... dodgy website. May take a few months to arrive. You know exactly what I mean.

@@rollingtroll It was a late model Imation B. I actually have a different Imation B but with the TDK hubs and it worked very well.

@@rollingtrollsome three or four years ago the aliexpress TDK B (with or without "life on record") was a fairly decent proposition. Perhaps not a genuine TDK, but definitely not type zero. But then the same money, around a dollar a piece, could buy a NOS Maxell UDI, without any shipping hassles, so the choice was quite obvious.

​@@pcorf 👍 agree , there must have been a bad batch of them somewhere.

Which ones?

Missed it! I am including one in my next video about this.

Actively didn't use different biases, I stuck to the one for the TDK D because let's face it; most people don't have decks with adjustable bias, and most people who do won't buy cheap ferro tapes :D.

@@rollingtroll Ah then I will probably one of the exceptions :) All my decks have bias adjustment, but I mostly use type 1. The TDK D / AD are my favorite tapes, just because they sound so great and they hold up very good too. You can play them hundred times and still next to no drop-outs. In practice, I found only the noise floor better with Type 2's, so for quit music I use type 2's (BASF mainly). But except noisefloor, the more expensive tapes don't have really audible differences for my ears when biased properly. Putting the money in great decks with inexpensive tapes worked better than the other way around :)

It’s literally BASF sm900 made thinner and narrower

Any idea why?

@@rollingtroll here's the thing Algeria was a French colony form 1830 all the way to 1962 as you can imagine during the war listening to music wasn't really a priority so we kind of missed out on the whole vinyl record Golden Era After the revolution people were still broken down basically just trying to survive the 70s was more like a recovery era owning a basic appliance like a fridge or a radio was considered a luxury finally the 80s came and life quality started to improve and as you can imagine the cassette tape and China Deluxe cassette players wear the star of the show the 90s was really the turning point where we started to catch on with the rest of the world the 2000s came and CDs and mp3 players took over specifically 2004 those cheap VCD players that I told you about and iPod bootlegs where everywhere but you could still buy cassette tapes all the way to 2006 I guess but anywho since then physical formats left the scene and never came back

They literally can't. The formulations and machinery are largely lost, and many of the most reliable tapes used materials that are now illegal (like whale oil). They will make them like they used to eventually, but the focus for now is on reel to reel tapes as no one takes cassette seriously (which is sad).

@@rollingtroll its also sad that most of the old chrome tapes are unusable today. got a bunch of BASF crome tapes from around 1990 and they just dont record well. maybe ok for speach but not music.

@@groovechampion1462 someone told me this before but that is not my experience at all actually!

@@rollingtroll im meaning the pure chromes, not the "type2" many called their type 2 chrome when they infact was just cobalt, these still works perfectly fine.

Nah, they are just cheap crap with Tascam on them I'm afraid. I meant to try one but then read the reviews. Would still love to try one but you can't get them here in the Netherlands unfortunately, and having them shipped from anazon.com literally doubles the price. So what was wrong with them?

@@rollingtroll A lot of hissing, no highs and really expensive for what they are