I love the ‘80’s badging on everything. Turbo, EFI, ABS, etc. Depending on how fast your deck rewinds ABS might be useful. 😉

@watershed44

4 жыл бұрын

@Nak Anon In the USA it was car marker SAAB that put the name Turbo on the map of advertisers, with the SAAB 900 Turbo. A great car way ahead of its time. Sad they are gone now since GM didn't know how run the company.

Of all the mix tapes that survived the abuse of hot summers and frigid winters in my car, the UX Turbos came out the best. The tape in there is amazing and still sounds fantastic. The wrapper on the tapes I have left have the exact same problem...the gold printing sticks to the shell. I didn't care for the small shell window, but Maxell had gone down the same road by that point. It really didn't matter once it was recorded, since the car stereo hides the shell anyway.

The Sony Metal SR/XR from 1990 is still one of my favorites even if I have to light off some magnesium behind it to see where the tape is. If we were in some sort of parallel universe where digital never happened I'd expect that shell design to be what I'd find in the stores today.

Thanks, I just love the channel and like your voice and the way your talking. Found I have one Sony Walkman 90 Cassette recorded with James Bond movie themes on it. All my cassettes are stored in Posso archive boxes. When I was young I started recording on BASF Cassettes, later on different types of Maxell and the last recordings I made were almost all on Sony Esprit Cassettes (made in France), type IV. I used to record Dance Classics on these tapes. Keep on the good work and I always look forward to the next video. Ps: Could not resist and just purchased two Walkman Cassettes and one minidisc.

Lovely cassettes, lovely songs, as always, lovely video ! Thx Tony !

You can't go wrong with Sony tapes, They will preform great even on lower end decks.

When someone has a new car, iphone or girlfriend i do not care but a nice deck like this cr7 yes i am jalous 😀 😍

@watershed44

4 жыл бұрын

@tsevetgestoorde Ah, the old school discerning type.

After watching your video, I still love to go back to the 80's and listen to the songs on cassette decks

I still have one of those ' Turbo' tapes from the day and yes, i did play it in the car- happy days.

Congrats on your gorgeous new deck.

Great video, beautiful deck, excellent tapes, great songs to listen to, what more can I say? 👍 Have a great day Tony, looking forward to seeing the next video, cheers, take care

Love that deck! "Cold & clinical" from a 1986 analog machine is pretty awesome, as is scoring this well maintained beast for a cheeky bid 👍

Just bought 10 UX Turbo tapes, sounds fantastic, really are UX-S

I need a CR-7! I love the display too.

I like the Walkman brand tape. The difference between source and tape was very close. I really enjoyed this video. Have a great day.

I picked up a single sealed UX Turbo tape a couple of years ago at a bootsale for I think 10 or 20p for my dad. Yet to try it out on his CR-4E.

I was recording a LOT in the 80s and early 90s, and I don't remember these!

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

That's why I did the video. They were "anomalies"

@nextsegment78

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I remember them. They were also in 90s' Sony inside brochures for a while (even till 96)

Guys, you know with the 'Walkman' tape.. do you think that the reason you can't see tape well is due limited protection against direct sunlight?

very nice looking tapes will have to snag a couple!

Great looking and sounding tapes (a shame it's not called "UX Turbo 2000", though ;-)), fantastic deck (can't wait to hear some "type 0s" on it! ;-)). I'm so jealous!

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

Don't be jealous, treat yourself to one. Maintain it and they're not going to go down in price.

Both sounded excellent

Oh boy, the holy Nakamichi trinity! Zx9, cr7 and Dragon! Wow! The only Nak I heard and I love as much as those is the 1000ZXL! And another 2 cassette to look for.. *sigh*.. your enthusiasm is infectious.....

What is very interesting is that the CR4 (recently came across a video showing its mechanism) also shows a gear assembly close to the head very similar to that of the CR7. They might actually share the same basis for the mechanics.

Writing on the inlay cards for Walkman tapes were a nightmare, if I remember right! They gave those away with cheap Sony Walkmans in the early 90s. I had one (as a hard up student) around 1991. I had a Aiwa PS with loads of great features before that.It strangely started to use up a lot of battery power and then bit the dust....:-(

The sound is wonderful

I couldn’t make out any hiss when playing this video on my iPad Pro speakers at reasonably high volume, but these tapes weren’t recorded with any Dolby?! Impressive quality! I recently recorded on a new Sony Type 2 and for the first time I was disappointed, as for the first time I had about 2 minutes worth of major drop-outs at the start of side 2. After that it was back at its best though. So, no brand of tape is absolutely perfect.

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

Oh sure. No one is perfect.

Nice Nak, back in the day I craved owning a TT 1000.... Still do. 😎😎😎

i've seen shorter leaders on some of the late cd-it II cassettes so i guess sony liked the design

16:22 Tony, I noticed brum. This low level brum (-60dB) is from deck, source or bad ground connections? In the case of the Walkman cassette, I always liked this project, even though you can't see how much tape is left to the end.

4:31 - Even if you had one of those Teac decks with the green backlight, you would still have a job seeing the tape pack! Someone was on the saké when they came up with that design....

@watershed44

4 жыл бұрын

@Fluteboy I think the reason why they didn't bother with the window in these were because they were designed to be used in car decks which you would never allow you to see it.

Noticed that the line on display to the right of auto calibration modulates with audio levels. Mine does this also? Think Cap or no worry? Thanks Jim.

I did buy several Sony Walkman tapes both type I and II. They were cool 😃 BTW, I also have a CR-7, it's a great deck, you can see it in my latest video 😉 Thanks for the video 👍

Nakamichi decks are work of art.

I personally like the TDK tapes, setup correctly and they were great stuff. The SA chrome tape was a great listen and gave superb performance. The MA-R was probably the best tape made, it was a metal tape that really delivered as it were. The sound from them was very good indeed. The MA was a similar experience but without the metal reference shell, both had the same tape. On a decent tape deck they were pretty easy to manually calibrate, you got a sense of involvement as it were. Some other TDK tapes were pretty good stuff too, in fairness to them I don’t recall a bad tape from TDK. Maxell did some high quality stuff too and from memory it was pretty well liked at the time. When tape was in its most popular as it were you could almost get a tape for every letter of the alphabet. Technics had their tapes made by TDK, the similarities were almost identical. I don’t know if Nakamichi had tapes made for them like Technics did but it might be interesting to see what they deliver today. I think even Boots the chemist had tapes on sale at one time but I doubt them being an own brand. The magic of tape was all you had to do was press a button and enjoy.

"Pocket friendly shells" had the rounded corners so the corners didn't snag, i.e., most tapes in the 90's.

1988 was the best year on record for music and tapes

@CassetteComeback

3 жыл бұрын

I'd argue 1986, but I'd take Cassettes from either time.

I can't hear a damn difference between these tapes and the sources. Great deck.

Great vídeo and songs. Whats the name of the first music of the tape "walkman"? Thanks

17:10 - In my best Mark King voice: "And as I walk into the lonely afternoon...."

OH BOY............ buying a new tape, unwraping it, the smell of a new tape. AND THEN? what shal I record onto it? OH YES PLEASE many thanks for this video.

You remembered to get the BIC this time ;)

I remember having a couple UX Turbos in my collection back in the day. I was stationed in Japan at the time and they were all over the place. The only thing I didn't like about them was they had the half-cases that only covered the bottom and the back. Fortunately, when they started selling them in the US, most of them had regular slim cases. The Walkman branded cassette, though, I've never heard of those. Is that something new?

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

Not new, they're from 1988, but weren't around for long.

I have a couple of Sony turbo tapes that sound really good, however at certain moments while playing they sound low, no highs and a bit distorted , then sound great again; does it mean that the tape is damaged ? Greets from Ecuador !

I like the front panel azimuth on the CR7. I prefer that to the auto-azimuth on the Dragon.

I still have my walkman tapes

Yeah turbo tapes ran very smoothly, the sealed tapes without screws you suck the tape out to repair it, if it breaks. Usually rewinding and fast forwarding a few times loosens a tape up from sticking.

I have some UX-TURBO tapes and when i unwrapped, the wrap are glued to the box too, maybe is "normal" today

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they are decades old...

The Walkman cassette is the best looking I've ever seen, if I had any chance to put my hand on it, I would buy it! Wow! I've never seen any better! Hello from Russia! Will You sell me this tape?

@retrorambles517

2 жыл бұрын

Not selling anything to Russia Boooo Russia sucks

The thing about nakamichi is that in my area of the USA in the state of California is where can you get these vintage tape decks fixed in my town of SAN DIEGO ?I have a nakamichi cassette tape deck model CR-4 and can anyone help me in this because it has the L&R lights on where it shouldn't be when powered up its in the -30 ranges any help for me?

"Turbo" word makes any car go faster)

Best ones i remember were Maxell XLII & XLIIS TDK SA & MA ...

My Kenwood ct203 is also a auto calibration tape dual deck

I’d really like to see you do a video where you record on a type II @ the 120 Setting. Would it be any good? If so, This would’ve been great for playing these tapes on the average decks that most of us 80’s teens had back then.

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

The Chrome pre-recorded cassettes you could buy were Type 2 recorded at 120 microseconds. It just makes them sound hissier tbh.

@buckfiden6227

4 жыл бұрын

Cassette Comeback Yeah, I always wondered about those pre-recorded cro2s. Somehow I thought that BASF made a special type 1 chrome just for record company’s.

I've always had a thing for black hubs,for me,it started with the Maxell XII-S.

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

They look badass 😃

@watershed44

4 жыл бұрын

@Cassette Comeback I wonder if that is where the car makers got the idea for all the blacked out wheels today? Seems like it. I've noticed over the years that a lot of trends are passed back and fourth between different consumer industries after all I think the electronics and auto industries have had a very symbiotic relationship since the 80s!

The Walkman cassettes kind of make sense!

Brilliant cassettes...👍

@watershed44

4 жыл бұрын

*IT'S A SONY*

I have a few of the sony 100 minute tapes, found some cassette decks can be a bit chewy with them

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

Well maintained and clean decks shouldn't chew cassettes.

Hey Tony, don’t listen to the haters! They are just jealous of that new Nak. That thing sounds fire to me and super clean! You lucky mate!🙃😆😃Tah dah!

Got em all (pretty well) missed out on the sexy Teac tapes and didn't go much on That's... But have plenty of different Sony tapes... 😎😎😎

It would be cool to have a video going thought all your cassettes in your sample pack.

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

Most of the cassettes in there, I've featured in videos, except the SKC GX and Maxell Original UR

@Domina7ion

4 жыл бұрын

@@CassetteComeback yeah I can see most of them, it just might be convenient for people to have a overview video where each is compared side by side. I've finally got my deck working so I'll probably be buying one soon

I liked the "WALKMAN" cassettes in the 90s

What's the difference between the CR-7A and CR-7E? Is it just some localisation thing?

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

A is American market E is European

you know if you add Nissan in front of UX, it could actually sound like a car, Nissan UX Turbo :-P

@watershed44

4 жыл бұрын

@Batteryman I would be very curious to know how many car makers had tie ins with audio manufacturers back in those days.

The Nakamichi CR-7 sounds excellent to me. Very precise. Apart from the slight tape noise you really can't tell you're listening to a cassette tape. I guess some people might not like that though.

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. It's said it's to sound too "digital"...I think it sounds different, but still great.

Well I'm interested! ^_^ :D

Meh, you get short leaders as an undocumented feature of a lot of later type zero tapes 😁 Hard to go wrong with Sony tapes, don't think I've ever had a bad one. Even the lowly FX is a cut above some other manufacturers' "super ferrics".

Had a RAM Turbo joystick interface for my ZX Spectrum! Didn't add any RAM, didn't speed the computer up...

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

But I bet it was killer when playing Turbo Esprit 😃

@TheDeeplyCynical

4 жыл бұрын

R Tape Load Error ; 0,1

Is the tape leader for the Sony 100 min tapes supose to be white? It looks green

@DigiKunt

4 жыл бұрын

It's clear-ish

@oscarflores1980

4 жыл бұрын

@@DigiKunt yea thats right clear-sh

Thank you for recording sound from line out. Gives very good and clear sound to compare. However, Nakamichi deck are way overpriced to sound quality. Sony has way better high frequencies. And similar to Nakamichi sound I am getting from my Akai CS-M02 from 1980. Pleasant, nice, soft, but very far from original source... I will upload a video to my channel soon.

Now we know why BASF went out of business, they had Chrome Extra, Chrome Super, Chrome Maxima, but they didn't do Chrome Turbo...

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

😄

nice

What are the names of these great Songs?

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

I mention them all in the video

@PFFPP

4 жыл бұрын

Can You wright the name of the music of Walkman tape please?

@PFFPP

4 жыл бұрын

I can t understand the name

Hi I like to buy CR-7 can anyone help me? Thanks!

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

Go to a website called eBay with about £1800 in your hand and you can buy one today 😁

I'm looking to buy one of these

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

I've got the cassettes in stock in my webstore. Not the deck though 😁

@kevinjenkins6136

4 жыл бұрын

@@CassetteComeback ok lol.Thanks!

And how many car stereos actually had type II mode?

@cubdukat

4 жыл бұрын

Probably all of them. By that time, including auto tape type would be hard not to do. I remember owning a mid-line Kenwood back in the late 80's with auto tape select.

@tapemaster8252

4 жыл бұрын

The tape type is only relavant for recording, playback doesn't matter unless it's recorded on dolby c or s, car decks never had that, dolby b was for car decks

@barcrocker4802

4 жыл бұрын

@@tapemaster8252 Thinking back to my older cassette decks without auto tape type selectors I believe the tape type does indeed making a difference for both recording and playback. On chrome and metal tapes, the recorder uses a 70u equalization time constant. On ferric tapes, it uses 120u. When playing back the same time constant should be used in order to preserve frequency response linearity - what is done during record must be undone during playback. This is why a chrome tape sounds 'brighter' when played back with the normal setting. But I could be wrong.

@tapemaster8252

4 жыл бұрын

@@barcrocker4802 yep,your wrong

@barcrocker4802

4 жыл бұрын

@@tapemaster8252 LOL. If I am wrong why do chrome tapes have more treble when played back in the normal position? Not saying I am 100% right, as my knowledge on this subject matter is limited to Hobbyist in nature, but at least try to demonstrate why I am wrong. Thanks.

Alexei Sayle?

Key Words like / Turbo Zest New and Improved Buy 1 Get 1 Free Great For The Family and POCKET FRIENDLY ! as if the others are impolite and grabbing my junk / for hype to trigger sub conscious excitement invented by marketeers of big corps in hopes of making us peel off some of that green .. AWESOME TURBO TAPES AND THEY SOUND ZESSSTYYY and that CR 7 is sooo Family Friendly ...Excuse my terribly blatant commercialism please.. AWESOME VID

Dolby BANG! And the noise is GONE!

another Nak you lucky sod!

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

The harder I work, the luckier I get 😁

I have this UX turbo

What is price?

@CassetteComeback

3 ай бұрын

Price, is how much you need to pay in order to be able to acquire something.

I wonder if sony would gladly refund your tape. It says lifetime warranty.

@demonufo

4 жыл бұрын

Maxell still honour theit warranty with a replacement UR

@christianjohnson7228

4 жыл бұрын

demonufo interesting.

@demonufo

4 жыл бұрын

@@christianjohnson7228 Pretty rubbish if you sent back an MX as faulty though. :D

@watershed44

4 жыл бұрын

@demonufo Actually that's kind of surprising. Who's in charge of the warranty? Maxell or the company that supplies the tapes manufactured for them?

@demonufo

4 жыл бұрын

@@watershed44 Maxell, not Panggung.

Turbo makes the tape go faster so you can listen to pinkey and perky 😂

зачем кассеты? я винил собираю и в интернете музыка в доступе!

Please Please Please balanace the volume of the intro music with your voice in the actual video. Otherwise I love your content.

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

It all peaks at -6db

It's a sound bite so it has all to do with sound...

20 years later, the new Sony "walkman" is nothing but a joke. I love the look of these tho.

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

Sony will never be the innovative company it was. If you've got an Android device, like this is, and want to see cassettes, just get casse-o-player.

@750kv8

4 жыл бұрын

@@CassetteComeback - Thing is, I dont even have a phone (or a tablet), probably I'll never have, and never felt the need to. I live under a rock. xD

Turbo means it is better.

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

But not as good as a Super Twin Turbo 😂

@watershed44

4 жыл бұрын

@Cassette Comeback The late 80s and early 90s made the term "intercooler" another buzz word!

@kiirunavaara

4 жыл бұрын

@@watershed44 Haha, indeed. ICM also had Turbo cassettes (a couple of years before Sony), later ICM had Intercooler cassettes: www.45spaces.com/i/1bceb27b7a36a101

Зер гуд.

Esos putos tapes costaban 2.99usa dolar en sus tiempo

I like your new deck! So it's digital sounding, digital got a bad rap! It's not the fact that something is cold because it's digital, no, it's cold because it's "low" or "medium" resolution digital at 44.1 16 ! Higher resolution formats like SACDS or hi resolution digital downloads, bring back the "warmth" ! I've heard people who hear a "hi resolution" digital format and they say "wow, that sounds like analog or an LP" ! So it's not digital that's the problem, it's "low" resolution digital that's the problem! Low resolution analog formats like 8 track or a cheap type 1 cassette sound cold as well! There I go again with my long winded comment again, sorry!

@watershed44

4 жыл бұрын

@Vinyl City I've listened to the "hi bit" digital recordings on CD and DVD and they still have a bit of a sharp or harsh quality to them because in the end it still can't reproduce every single nuance of the analogue audio spectrum. It's close but still not the same, and trained ears can detect it.

中国の母！日本のお母さん！英語を学びます。👍📻📼🇷🇺🇯🇵🍷🍾🍹💩

€100.... bargain www.leboncoin.fr/image_son/1433774631.htm

Wow I can’t believe that people still care about cassette tapes 🤣 Can anyone please tell me why?

@CassetteComeback

4 жыл бұрын

If you're not interested in cassettes, why are you watching cassette videos on a channel called cassette Comeback? But since you asked, see if you can glean anything from this video... kzread.info/dash/bejne/p2WYuMWmia7Me9I.html

@RadioKilla07

Жыл бұрын

Imagine a generation who had only ipods, mp3 players and streaming platforms to reference to hearing their music. To physically have a copy of your music was always something special, but also alot of young folks are simply fascinated in the technology that was made in the past to produce audio. The 80's and 90's wasnt really that long ago when you think about it and Cassette decks like the one in this video shows how Advanced technology produced really good sound. You would be quite amazed of how advanced we are today in technology yet, the technology of the 70's, 80's and 90's still gives equal or better results with Audio.

And again a video looking at someones buttprint...why? Buy a fucking table instead of useless cassettes