This company is a national treasure. I'm really glad their stubbornness worked out for them :) Cassettes will always be cool (and not only because of Hipsters). Best wishes from Germany, the former home of BASF, ORWO and AGFA tapes. Physical Mediums beat cloud and streaming in every aspect. Especially the fun and enjoyment part.
@@kylereese5869 At one point perhaps. Some bands or indie film makers may release small batches of VHS copies of their movies. As long as there's blank VHS tape material available and people with working VCRs. If i'd release something on VHS it should rather be S-VHS, Heck, maybe D-VHS even gets niche revival like some folks who do with new music releases on DCC.
I live right up the road about 2 miles from this company. Never bought tapes from them but I have gotten lots of CD's from them and they do fantastic work.
These guys should think about selling blank tapes for consumers. I know you can buy a case of 100, but I'm talking about maybe a 5-pack of blank tapes with cases, labels, and j-cards, just like you'd buy back in the day. I'd be all over that.
You should check out Recording the Masters brand. They're based in France and they manufacture brand new tapes on BASF equipment! You can get them in US too.
@@SPAZZOID100 cassettes sound just as good as CD's all you need is a high end cassette deck with bias and dolby noise reduction and Chromium dioxide tapes. (cro2) which are used for CD quality sound. If calibrated right.
Cassettes are coming back big time here in the state of Pennsylvania.I love cassettes!!! I will keep playing my cassettes till the day i die.Cassettes have such a warm sound and i love to make mix tapes.☺☺☺☺☺
I have lots of CD's. But I have never thrown out any of my many cassette tapes. I still have them, and I have two stereo units with cassette recorder/players in them. I won't purchase a stereo system unless it has at least one cassette player in it. And because one is also a recorder, I can still make mix tapes! Among all of the cassette tapes I own, the tapes I treasure the most are those which I recorded myself. Those are the on-air recordings I made back in the late 80's of the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre, which I recorded off of Denver's KOA-AM 850 kHz. I still have several of them, and they still sound and play just like they did when I originally recorded them!
I am so happy that these guys stood their guys out for analog sounds production. Audio tapes are wonderful and I am one of those who returned quickly back to my vinyls and to listen to analog sounds which is amazing
Is this some kind of replacement stock for what Quantegy used to sell? Never heard of it. Hard to get some proper Multitrack / Portastudio tapes here in Europe. Even thou i managed to successfully use the current generation of Maxel UR90 tapes on them as well, dispite being Type1 Tapes.
Thanks. Yeah, I'll check them out and see if it's worth the shipping costs. Yeah, the Type1 tapes work too but of course since they get the wrong premagnetisation the sound will still be a bit more dull than Type II tapes. But if you compensate that with the EQ and only use DBX noise reduction, it should be fine. I have no other choice xD TDK SA tapes were the last Type II stock i could get before all of it was suddenly gone from stores everywhere.
Thank you so much! Bless you and all your employees for keeping this medium alive. A lot of my generation never got to experience cassette tapes, and the younger generations, not at all! We'd really like to
There is something special about putting on a tape, looking at the artwork and handling the plastic housing that protects the tape. The tapes i have were made in the 80's to early 2000's. I am glad to hear that tapes are being made again. Hopefully this trend keeps going.
I fell in love again in tapes , after 15 years. Now I know how to use equipment. In old days I used poor quality boombox, cheapest cassettes and I was recording radio music. It was awful. Now is different and it's beautiful. :)
Personally, I am somewhat happy that audio cassettes and tape recorders are still around today and I hope that it continues. I also hope that compact discs and their players won't go extinct anytime soon because I have been collecting them for years and I enjoy them. Same thing with audio cassettes and a small tape recorder that I have as well.
@@pentium4guy639 Record labels this year are putting out Cassette's left and right. Rise Records is one big one doing it as well. Alice N chains also is along with Marlyn Manson and plenty more.
When I say it would be a dream job, there's a deeper reason. Now, alot of you will think this is odd but remember how it sounds when a tape is messing up? Like the music speeding up and slowing down and getting all garbled, film getting tangled up and spitting out on the floor? Ok in 41 now and have loved hearing that sound of it going bonkers. I even will pull some film out, put it in the radio, film hanging out, press play and pause together then use my hands to pull film out of it to hear the music or voices sound so messed up, you'd think omg, I've never heard a tape mess up so bad. I could hear that sound 24/7. I always wondered if anyone else likes that sound. But it's probably just me and I probably have something wrong with me. But, I like it, always have and always will. I know I may get jumped on for this comment like Dang dude you've got some serious issues. But I'm not ashamed of it. It's who I am. People who have made fun of me for it only means they're too simple minded to try to understand why I like it. Anyway, thought I'd mention it. Although I'm sure I'm gonna pay for it.
Thank you for this video, I would like to say that I'm very happy that cassette tape are back I still purchase them, even blank sealed cassette,great job guys
I am so glad the format is making a comeback. I was born in 96 so I did live a little in the 2000s when people still bought cassettes. In fact, it was my go to format because even then CD’s were still pricy. It was my favorite format because I went on walks allot and preferred that over a bulky disc man anyway. I got my first Sony Cassette Deck around 2003-2004. It was a gift, and I still have and use it til this day. I even have tons of cassette tapes I grew up getting, like the Now Music tapes, Britney Spears, NSYNC, etc.. I have so many artist now, and while I love Vinyl, cassette is my favorite format to collect. It’s a shame that the format didn’t hold its own longer because by the 90’s the format got so good it was comparable to CD quality almost. But no one wanted to invest in the technology, so it kinda remained at a stand still and Dolby did all they could. I also believe it was the cheap cassette players at fault for the formats death. But so happy it’s springing back to life gradually and out sells CDs in some cases. Now we need Sony or some brand to bring back better quality decks (besides TEAC)
I did a digital recording of an album cut on a tape (store bought copy) and spent a lot of time doing so only to find the full album on you tube cut from a CD and could not match the quality no matter what. Tape is DEAD. Face the facts: digital RULES.
you probably bought a normal bias cassette album, I have people fooled all the time when i play high bias tapes on my denon drm-710, they always think its a cd... you have to know more then the basics when it comes down to audio...
Vinyl doesn't have the same drawbacks as tape in that the recording can retain at least most of the dynamic range of the recording, whereas tape will always have that annoying hiss at lower recording levels. On vinyl, if your record is clean and free of scratches, it comes super close to CD. The plus side of vinyl IS the analog reproduction which has no interpolations to the original sound. On digital, you have various (yet indiscernible to most of people's hearing) multitude points of data that get interpolated back to analog that only to the audiophile can one tell the difference. Also on a record I can put that needle at any point in the recording and hear what I want to hear rather than having to REWIND or FASTFORWARD to those same points on a tape. This is why vinyl is making the better comeback than tape can ever accomplish.
I find that over time the magnetic imprint from one overlay of the reel imprints itself onto the other so that you hear seems to be some sort of overlook into what is to come next or worse, what you just heard repeated a few milliseconds later. So something that long ago would have a bigger imprint and cause more of that unwanted type of cross-talk not to mention the things that invariably occur with tapes that old which is momentary sound drop-outs. Those are issues that tape introduces that becomes problematic when trying to make them sound like CD quality when if fact, as hard as you may try to, you really can't.
Great! I have several mp3 players plus a fine stereo system with Paradigm speakers made in Canada. But my favorite gizmo is still my Sony cassette Walkman which I use to pipe cassette music to my stereo or my good headphones, not crappy earbuds. Now I need to find out where to purchase your blanks. Glad you guys are doing it to it!
If this company would manufacture brandnew Type IV Metal tapes again, they'd literally have a license to print money. They wouldn't even know where to put that money because people would buy that new stock like crazy.
Metal tape is not suitable for pre-recorded tapes though. For that they would want a high bias cobalt formula, which was used on some pre-recorded cassette releases in the past.
I have 40+ year old reel-to-reel tapes that sound as good today as when I recorded them in High School back in the 1970s and of course, 20+ and 30+ year old cassettes...
Being an avid audiophile, I have some good old music cassettes and recorded cassettes still hanging around. I have the same Yamaha cassette deck I bought in 1997 and it's still in perfect shape both in workmanship and cosmetically. Unfortunately many of these "tapes" have "broken down" over the years and will not play properly anymore. Back in the day, I had to rely on cassette tapes because being an audiophile I refused to purchase a CD player because VINYL RECORDS were then and still are now and always will be the best way to hear music reproduced faithfully. It took me until the last week of 1993 to purchase a CD player. I was relying on buying my favorite music on cassette tapes because the "industry" thought they were really keen to discontinue the manufacturing of the great VINYL media. (Little did they know that the VINYL RECORD would make such an amazing comeback!!) Those fools!!....Anyway, in some cases pre-recorded "store bought" music cassettes weren't too bad. Some actually sounded pretty good. BUT for the most part, they didn't sound good and just couldn't hold up. I do however from rare time to time record some music onto a blank cassette tape I may pick up here or there and if the record settings are set properly and one doesn't "distort" the recording signal by going past 0db on the record meter, then the recorded results are pretty nice. I've actually made CD's sound "warmer" and more "natural" and not so harsh the way CD's sound once the CD is put onto a good blank tape. It can be done, folks!!
Tobin Mummert thanks for the story, but no. Digital all the way!!! Its portable anywhere in the world and doesnt need a physical storage. If you like to travel. Flac is the way to go
Well, you got to admire their devotion for a almost forgotten yet iconic media format. Personally I prefer Sony and Maxell brand blank cassette types. But I also like TDK cassettes but only the good looking ones.
as someone who has been in the tape business for over 30 years and who works for the largest producer of lto in the world ill have to agree with you dan. tape is forever.
No problem. You can still get Maxell UR tape here in the USA at drug stores like CVS and Walgreens, but its basic normal bias tape made in Indonesia. Hopefully NAC's new tape will be better.
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In 1979 my grandad bought a Sony TC-K61.....in 1999 he gave it to my dad....2019 is here and I have just inherited it. The cassette has had one belt replacement in 40 years.....perfect. I just found a TC-K61 on ebay, now looking for the TC-K71, TC-K75 and TC-K61 to complete the collection. My son knows what he will get in 2039
This is really cool! Is there really music going back on tapes now? I would totally buy in, especially if I manage to get a slightly older car to work on, cherish and enjoy.
I've always loved my cassettes, from first listening to them in my dads 1986 Suzuki samurai, van halen being the first time I heard it and although I enjoyed it I got the impression of "this is why cassettes became obsolete" but when I moved onto listening to Dolby B cassettes in my Chrysler infinity sound system I begun to see how good they are, especially if you have Dolby S with metal cassettes. Truly this format phased out right when it was perfected.
I'm ready for the compact cassette comeback. Yep, got my Sony TC-K950ES repaired, and, even bought some Maxell blank cassettes. Thing is, I never stopped using cassettes. I use em to listen to playlists from CD's in my 2000 Camaro SS's factory installed cassette player. I also make playlists for my mother-in-law from her LP's, which are too inconvenient for her to listen to directly. At any rate, in most environments where the noise floor is somewhere around 23db, cassette recordings from CD or LP pretty much sound indistinguishable from LP and real close to sounding as good as CD. I don't think cassettes and cassette decks will ever go away, until God burns the Earth, since there are too many folks out there with questions like: Hey, I've got this cassette, can you copy it to a CD for me? Or, I've got a box of cassettes I need to get out of my attic, would you like to have them?
I’ve been thrift shopping and since I have an older car I’ve been getting cassettes for it. Only found classical so far but hope to get some “newer” stuff.
Up dated this comment: I still listen to tapes. I still have some from my highschool days. Still good quality. I have a radio with a tape player and a little walkman to pop a tape in. Nice!!⚘ Spazz, I blocked you. Your rude comments were uncalled for.
I still use Tapes in 2018. I just like the machine's and mechanical stuff of vintage audio equipment. I also still use Mini Disc's because why not? CD's are older than Mini Disc. but MD "died" quickly after MP3. Heck there are still music companies and indy guys releasing music on tape. BUT I wish new tape manufacturers would make cool designed big windowed shells like back in the days. also those REEL to REEL tapes that TEAC and some others did.
I had fond memories of the 1980s decade... cassette tapes... the Walkman Portable Cassette Player: 1. The Sun Always Shines On TV by AHa. 2. There's No Stopping Us by Ollie And Jerry. 3. I'm Still Standing by Elton John. 4. So Emotional by Whitney Houston. 5. You're My Heart You're My Soul by Modern Talking. 6. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) by The Eurythmics. 7. etc...
I think the return will be to allow use of good quality tape and high end machines which are affordable It may not be as large a mass low end market as before but it should be a larger high end market for recordings personal recordings and new machines. The utilization will perhaps surprise the skeptics.
THANK YOU STEVE STEPP !!!! I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED AUDIO CASSETTES !!! I WOULD LOVE TO START BUYING THEM AGAIN !!!! BUT MY AUDIO CASSETTE RECORDERS ARE WORN OUT AND THE CURRENT AVAILABLE ONES IN MY AREA ARE DREADFUL !!!! THESE IMPORTED CASSETTE PLAYERS HAVE AWFUL SOUND QUALITY, LIMITED SOUND VOLUME , NO SOUND METERS' NO TONE OR BASS CONTROL, AND THEY CHEW UP THE FEW GOOD QUALITY CASSETTES THAT I STILL HAVE FROM THE 1980'S. COULD YOU PLEASE PROVIDE A LIST OF GOOD QUALITY LOCAL U.S.A. MADE HIGH QUALITY AUDIO CASSETTE MAKERS ? THANK YOU !!!!
Please reintroduce type II tape. And I hope some parts manufacturer reads this and starts making new higher end cassette mechanisms. There's only one that's still produced (it's used even in the Teac/Tascam deck), and it's very basic. If Teac (or some other manufacturer) makes a new dual capstan 3 head deck that's not ridiculously expensive, I'll buy it.
Two questions: Are those King loaders? How many pancakes do you bust a month? :-) I worked in a cassette mill in the early 80s and this brings back lots of memories!
I love my vhs tapes cassette tapes I don’t have a vinyl record player yet hopefully I’ll get one of those one day but I will always prefer VHS and cassettes for as long as I shall live because they have always been my favorite they’re easy to use and they last a long time as always you take care of them they should last 30 to 40 years maybe 50 years
I think that's very cool how these guys are open but you still need a device to listen to tapes and unfortunately like me I do have devices but most of them needs repairs and the repairs could be very expensive depending on which brand you're choosing from.
This company is a national treasure. I'm really glad their stubbornness worked out for them :) Cassettes will always be cool (and not only because of Hipsters). Best wishes from Germany, the former home of BASF, ORWO and AGFA tapes. Physical Mediums beat cloud and streaming in every aspect. Especially the fun and enjoyment part.
there new blank cassettes are fantastic, easily as good as anything I've used in the past thirty years.
I am always wondering if VHS would also make a comeback
@@kylereese5869 At one point perhaps. Some bands or indie film makers may release small batches of VHS copies of their movies. As long as there's blank VHS tape material available and people with working VCRs. If i'd release something on VHS it should rather be S-VHS, Heck, maybe D-VHS even gets niche revival like some folks who do with new music releases on DCC.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 exactly maybe we could finally give D-Theater a chance.
@@kylereese5869 I doubt it but they do make good audio players if you get a hifi model
Impressive tape flip @0:21
Yep, faster than autoreverse. ;)
I live right up the road about 2 miles from this company. Never bought tapes from them but I have gotten lots of CD's from them and they do fantastic work.
They also manufacture CDs? Nice! :)
Perhaps maybe this is your dreamjob then working with them making cassettes
These guys should think about selling blank tapes for consumers. I know you can buy a case of 100, but I'm talking about maybe a 5-pack of blank tapes with cases, labels, and j-cards, just like you'd buy back in the day. I'd be all over that.
You should check out Recording the Masters brand. They're based in France and they manufacture brand new tapes on BASF equipment! You can get them in US too.
and put them in all the stores in the country..
Everything old is new again.
Kevin Höhnisch for records yes. NOT cassettes.
there is nothing new under the sun
@@kevinhoehnisch98
Yes Kevin it is :-)
@@SPAZZOID100 But what if I told you cassettes are good.
@@SPAZZOID100 cassettes sound just as good as CD's all you need is a high end cassette deck with bias and dolby noise reduction and Chromium dioxide tapes. (cro2) which are used for CD quality sound. If calibrated right.
0:20 Thats some skill right there.
Next time he could try that with reel to reel. ;)
Message for National Audio Company Inc. : I love Cassettes!! I think that there are the best format to store music! :)
Cassettes are coming back big time here in the state of Pennsylvania.I love cassettes!!! I will keep playing my cassettes till the day i die.Cassettes have such a warm sound and i love to make mix tapes.☺☺☺☺☺
Lisa Marsh.. Must be, I’m in PA too and see this as well. I’m in the same boat (sinking boat?).. I still record stuff I don’t have time for but I enjoy Novelty, many ppl today lack this and these are the ppl you can’t talk to about such things before being labeled “stupid weirdo”, aww idnt e so cute 🙄 So here’s my “kit” of goodies I enjoy the novelty of using and abusing (excluding: vhs dvd/br portable, camera, other, tv and gaming)..
Hi-Fi Stereo components list:
•Living Room
Yamaha a/v rec. RX-V661 (with YDS-12 dock)
Yamaha tape K-640
Yamaha tape K-540
Yamaha cd5 CDC-655
BSR SE-One (spacial enhance)
Sony PS-LX510 phono
Yamaha EQ GE-60
Yamaha NS-A1738 tower sp
Yamaha RX-V2065
•Other
Sansui S-2500X sp (‘74)
Sharp Vi AN-2000U
JVC tape TD-W718
Audio-Technica AT-PL50
Sony HCD/LBT-G5500 (98)
Pioneer a/v rec. VSX-D508 (sp- CT-T5100 (99)
Sharp tape RT-W500
JVC tape TD-R441
JVC cd5 XL-FZ158
Technics cd5 SL-PD827
Onkyo a/v rec. HT-R520 (sp- SK 520)
Onkyo tape TA-R301 (RI)
Onkyo cd6 DX-C380
Sony tape TC-WR531
Realistic STA-64B
Coustic ei HEQ-7009 (spectrum display analyzer)
Fisher Hi-Fi cab (sp- ST-830)
MT-730
CA-273
FM-273
CR-W46
EQ-273
Sharp Optonica RT-1515B
Technics cd5 SL-PC10 (1989)
Technics tape RS-B54 (dbx deck)
Craig tape H221 (1977)
Sharp Optonica tape processor RT-3838
Technics a/v rec. SA-GX690
Yamaha a/v rec. RX-V371
Sharp tape RT-160
Yamaha tape KX-W382
Pioneer a/v rec. SX-V200
Sansui S-37 sp
Sansui S-3900 sp
Ion TTUSB
Onkyo tape TA-2060
Yamaha amp A-30
Yamaha tuner T-30
Mixing/recording/instrument amplification & sound processing:
Peavey M-3000 Mark V Series (power amplifier rack head)
BSR SE-One (spare)
Zoom GFX-8
inKel EQ-825 (rack EQ)
Russound TMS-1
Casio CT-650
Yamaha PSS-470
Zoom MRS-1608
Yamaha CRW-70 (copier)
Community CSX (stage monitor ls)
Radio Shack 40w P.A.
Radio Shack P.A. ls 75
Realistic P.A.-88
Yamaha MD4
Vox AD100VT
Crate GX-15
DOD FX76
Rocktron Midi Mate
Yamaha SPX90II (rack effects)
Fender BXR Sixty
Zoom R16
Peavey AlphaBASS (rack head)
Crate GX412R
Sunn 115RH
Yamaha RX17 (rhythm prog)
Yamaha DD-5 (drum pads)
Optimus EQ 31-2030
Rocktron Rampage amp
Yamaha DJX-IIB
Cheers!
Thanks for keeping the Cassette alive.
I use cassette tapes everyday keep up the good work!!
I like to collects CDs and cassettes.But cassette got a special spot in my heart.
Eliezer Logronio, you got a heart shaped tape.
The same here Eliezer ;-)
I have lots of CD's. But I have never thrown out any of my many cassette tapes. I still have them, and I have two stereo units with cassette recorder/players in them. I won't purchase a stereo system unless it has at least one cassette player in it. And because one is also a recorder, I can still make mix tapes!
Among all of the cassette tapes I own, the tapes I treasure the most are those which I recorded myself. Those are the on-air recordings I made back in the late 80's of the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre, which I recorded off of Denver's KOA-AM 850 kHz. I still have several of them, and they still sound and play just like they did when I originally recorded them!
Love the slight hiss while playing the tape, just like the static sound on vinyl record
I am so happy that these guys stood their guys out for analog sounds production. Audio tapes are wonderful and I am one of those who returned quickly back to my vinyls and to listen to analog sounds which is amazing
Great company! The 799 Studio Master tapes are all I use in my 4-track
Is this some kind of replacement stock for what Quantegy used to sell? Never heard of it. Hard to get some proper Multitrack / Portastudio tapes here in Europe. Even thou i managed to successfully use the current generation of Maxel UR90 tapes on them as well, dispite being Type1 Tapes.
KRAFTWERK2K6 I’m not sure. Email them! I think they ship to Europe. Nice workaround btw
Thanks. Yeah, I'll check them out and see if it's worth the shipping costs. Yeah, the Type1 tapes work too but of course since they get the wrong premagnetisation the sound will still be a bit more dull than Type II tapes. But if you compensate that with the EQ and only use DBX noise reduction, it should be fine. I have no other choice xD TDK SA tapes were the last Type II stock i could get before all of it was suddenly gone from stores everywhere.
KRAFTWERK2K6 oh interesting... I’ll have to try that out... Type IIs are apparently disappearing now too
Well. You succeeded in making them cool again. I'm 14 and i love them.
Analog, awesome stuff my friends! I hope your business continues for many, many more years! Thank you for being there.:)
Thank you so much! Bless you and all your employees for keeping this medium alive. A lot of my generation never got to experience cassette tapes, and the younger generations, not at all! We'd really like to
There is something special about putting on a tape, looking at the artwork and handling the plastic housing that protects the tape. The tapes i have were made in the 80's to early 2000's. I am glad to hear that tapes are being made again. Hopefully this trend keeps going.
Love this stuff! I am from the time when tapes and vinyl were booming business, so it is still a part of my life.
I fell in love again in tapes , after 15 years. Now I know how to use equipment. In old days I used poor quality boombox, cheapest cassettes and I was recording radio music. It was awful. Now is different and it's beautiful. :)
0:20 you have inspired me to create the fastest cassette side A-B flip world record.
Wow this is great, film photography and vinyl records have also made a come back.
I was a operator of the Dolby Lyric Machine in Pakistan 🇵🇰 in year 1999❤️👍
Hi, from India.
Were you an operator in a sona?
I was working in auvitronics
@@hadirizvi2670 WPI Sonic site police station, Fire brigade, Karachi
Personally, I am somewhat happy that audio cassettes and tape recorders are still around today and I hope that it continues. I also hope that compact discs and their players won't go extinct anytime soon because I have been collecting them for years and I enjoy them. Same thing with audio cassettes and a small tape recorder that I have as well.
Robert Polanco CDs are still used for demos and software, would be a shame if they did but I don't think they'll be discontinued any time soon
Hello Sar casset ke Factory fir se chalni chahie
Is Jamane Mein cassette player Chalna chahie
Thank you for showcasing NAC. I can never get enough inside looks at their beautiful operation
I finally have a reason to use my tape deck in my car
buy me a new car then.
@@pentium4guy639 Record labels this year are putting out Cassette's left and right.
Rise Records is one big one doing it as well.
Alice N chains also is along with Marlyn Manson and plenty more.
Absolutely beautiful.
In 14 and I love cassette tapes.
When I say it would be a dream job, there's a deeper reason. Now, alot of you will think this is odd but remember how it sounds when a tape is messing up? Like the music speeding up and slowing down and getting all garbled, film getting tangled up and spitting out on the floor? Ok in 41 now and have loved hearing that sound of it going bonkers. I even will pull some film out, put it in the radio, film hanging out, press play and pause together then use my hands to pull film out of it to hear the music or voices sound so messed up, you'd think omg, I've never heard a tape mess up so bad. I could hear that sound 24/7. I always wondered if anyone else likes that sound. But it's probably just me and I probably have something wrong with me. But, I like it, always have and always will. I know I may get jumped on for this comment like Dang dude you've got some serious issues. But I'm not ashamed of it. It's who I am. People who have made fun of me for it only means they're too simple minded to try to understand why I like it. Anyway, thought I'd mention it. Although I'm sure I'm gonna pay for it.
Wow cool
0:20 - 0:24
So satisfying. I can't stop replaying it!
Thank you for this video, I would like to say that I'm very happy that cassette tape are back I still purchase them, even blank sealed cassette,great job guys
I am so glad the format is making a comeback. I was born in 96 so I did live a little in the 2000s when people still bought cassettes. In fact, it was my go to format because even then CD’s were still pricy. It was my favorite format because I went on walks allot and preferred that over a bulky disc man anyway. I got my first Sony Cassette Deck around 2003-2004. It was a gift, and I still have and use it til this day. I even have tons of cassette tapes I grew up getting, like the Now Music tapes, Britney Spears, NSYNC, etc.. I have so many artist now, and while I love Vinyl, cassette is my favorite format to collect. It’s a shame that the format didn’t hold its own longer because by the 90’s the format got so good it was comparable to CD quality almost. But no one wanted to invest in the technology, so it kinda remained at a stand still and Dolby did all they could.
I also believe it was the cheap cassette players at fault for the formats death. But so happy it’s springing back to life gradually and out sells CDs in some cases. Now we need Sony or some brand to bring back better quality decks (besides TEAC)
I ran the same equipment at WEA Mfg. Here in PA. Love this.
We do a ton of audiotape to CD (and mp3) conversions. Just did a cassette from 1965 - amazing that it still sounds good 50+ years later!
I did a digital recording of an album cut on a tape (store bought copy) and spent a lot of time doing so only to find the full album on you tube cut from a CD and could not match the quality no matter what. Tape is DEAD. Face the facts: digital RULES.
Then why the resurgence of vinyl? Don't get me wrong, I have a LOT of digital music but people are rediscovering the beauty and richness of analog.
you probably bought a normal bias cassette album, I have people fooled all the time when i play high bias tapes on my denon drm-710, they always think its a cd... you have to know more then the basics when it comes down to audio...
Vinyl doesn't have the same drawbacks as tape in that the recording can retain at least most of the dynamic range of the recording, whereas tape will always have that annoying hiss at lower recording levels. On vinyl, if your record is clean and free of scratches, it comes super close to CD. The plus side of vinyl IS the analog reproduction which has no interpolations to the original sound. On digital, you have various (yet indiscernible to most of people's hearing) multitude points of data that get interpolated back to analog that only to the audiophile can one tell the difference. Also on a record I can put that needle at any point in the recording and hear what I want to hear rather than having to REWIND or FASTFORWARD to those same points on a tape. This is why vinyl is making the better comeback than tape can ever accomplish.
I find that over time the magnetic imprint from one overlay of the reel imprints itself onto the other so that you hear seems to be some sort of overlook into what is to come next or worse, what you just heard repeated a few milliseconds later. So something that long ago would have a bigger imprint and cause more of that unwanted type of cross-talk not to mention the things that invariably occur with tapes that old which is momentary sound drop-outs. Those are issues that tape introduces that becomes problematic when trying to make them sound like CD quality when if fact, as hard as you may try to, you really can't.
Great! I have several mp3 players plus a fine stereo system with Paradigm speakers made in Canada. But my favorite gizmo is still my Sony cassette Walkman which I use to pipe cassette music to my stereo or my good headphones, not crappy earbuds. Now I need to find out where to purchase your blanks. Glad you guys are doing it to it!
I hope VHS returns too, I still use those daily. Sure, pre-recorded stuff doesn't looks as good as DVD but blank tapes are still being used.
All they have to do is get a popular movie and have the main charactor using VHS and VCR'S ... Just like star lord did in guardians of the galaxy.
If this company would manufacture brandnew Type IV Metal tapes again, they'd literally have a license to print money. They wouldn't even know where to put that money because people would buy that new stock like crazy.
Metal tape is not suitable for pre-recorded tapes though. For that they would want a high bias cobalt formula, which was used on some pre-recorded cassette releases in the past.
@@video99couk You mean the darker Type 1 kind of tapes that are Ferric Oxide with Cobalt? Yeah those are great.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 They were type 2 but for pre-recorded tapes, made so that you didn't need type 2 playback equalisation.
THANK GOD 4 AUDIO CASSETTES, WELCOME BACK.
Magnetic tapes stood the test of time better than any other format to store data on.
I have 40+ year old reel-to-reel tapes that sound as good today as when I recorded them in High School back in the 1970s and of course, 20+ and 30+ year old cassettes...
They may sound as good as you recorded them, but do they sound as good as their digital counterparts??? Hmmm??? Sorry NOT.
@@sc0tchlvr who asked?
Being an avid audiophile, I have some good old music cassettes and recorded cassettes still hanging around. I have the same Yamaha cassette deck I bought in 1997 and it's still in perfect shape both in workmanship and cosmetically. Unfortunately many of these "tapes" have "broken down" over the years and will not play properly anymore. Back in the day, I had to rely on cassette tapes because being an audiophile I refused to purchase a CD player because VINYL RECORDS were then and still are now and always will be the best way to hear music reproduced faithfully. It took me until the last week of 1993 to purchase a CD player. I was relying on buying my favorite music on cassette tapes because the "industry" thought they were really keen to discontinue the manufacturing of the great VINYL media. (Little did they know that the VINYL RECORD would make such an amazing comeback!!) Those fools!!....Anyway, in some cases pre-recorded "store bought" music cassettes weren't too bad. Some actually sounded pretty good. BUT for the most part, they didn't sound good and just couldn't hold up. I do however from rare time to time record some music onto a blank cassette tape I may pick up here or there and if the record settings are set properly and one doesn't "distort" the recording signal by going past 0db on the record meter, then the recorded results are pretty nice. I've actually made CD's sound "warmer" and more "natural" and not so harsh the way CD's sound once the CD is put onto a good blank tape. It can be done, folks!!
Tobin Mummert thanks for the story, but no. Digital all the way!!! Its portable anywhere in the world and doesnt need a physical storage. If you like to travel. Flac is the way to go
1:08 high tech!
Well, you got to admire their devotion for a almost forgotten yet iconic media format.
Personally I prefer Sony and Maxell brand blank cassette types. But I also like TDK cassettes but only the good looking ones.
0:55 I love how they're still using CRT monitors
This makes me so happy as I record my music on a cassette tape in my home studio. 🎹🎸🤟
Are you kidding me, there is a large business for magnetic tape, especially in the data archiving sector, LTO tapes are still a big deal!
as someone who has been in the tape business for over 30 years and who works for the largest producer of lto in the world ill have to agree with you dan. tape is forever.
The video cameras used in broadcast TV use a special type of Betamax tape.
But data archiving tapes have absolutely nothing to do with audio tapes. No machinery used in either field has anything in common with each other.
Yes, video and audio are two different things, that's true.
One pass of a bulk eraser will destroy your lame backward tape past world.
EVERYONE knows REAL music died after they got rid of Wax Cylinders! Damned kids and their fancy tapes!
You youngster. Me know that real music die when they invent instrument. Real music is when me bang stick on rock. Only Paleolithic kids understand
I hope NAC's new tape sounds as good as TDK's or Maxell's best normal bias tapes in the 80's and 90's.
wildbilltexas where to buy?
I guess from NAC's website: www.nationalaudiocompany.com/product-category/products/audio-cassette-tapes/
wildbilltexas splendid!
I'm off to lose all my savings!
No problem. You can still get Maxell UR tape here in the USA at drug stores like CVS and Walgreens, but its basic normal bias tape made in Indonesia. Hopefully NAC's new tape will be better.
There were good ones, Maxell and BASF to name two really good brands.
But both are not produced anymore
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WOW❗ I still have, use, buy & play cassette tapes on a regular basis.
Didn't know they were still made in the good ole 🇺🇸 USA👍👍💛
Yeah i still got some of my old tapes I'm glad i never even thought of throughing them away thanks
In 1979 my grandad bought a Sony TC-K61.....in 1999 he gave it to my dad....2019 is here and I have just inherited it. The cassette has had one belt replacement in 40 years.....perfect. I just found a TC-K61 on ebay, now looking for the TC-K71, TC-K75 and TC-K61 to complete the collection. My son knows what he will get in 2039
I want to work here when I'm older
Love to see it coming alive again.
Cassete never die. !!!
I'm very glad tapes are coming back. They're a great format and there's nothing wrong with them. I'm hoping they can come back into the norm.
This is really cool! Is there really music going back on tapes now? I would totally buy in, especially if I manage to get a slightly older car to work on, cherish and enjoy.
I've always loved my cassettes, from first listening to them in my dads 1986 Suzuki samurai, van halen being the first time I heard it and although I enjoyed it I got the impression of "this is why cassettes became obsolete" but when I moved onto listening to Dolby B cassettes in my Chrysler infinity sound system I begun to see how good they are, especially if you have Dolby S with metal cassettes.
Truly this format phased out right when it was perfected.
Analog is the best sound!
I'm ready for the compact cassette comeback. Yep, got my Sony TC-K950ES repaired, and, even bought some Maxell blank cassettes. Thing is, I never stopped using cassettes. I use em to listen to playlists from CD's in my 2000 Camaro SS's factory installed cassette player. I also make playlists for my mother-in-law from her LP's, which are too inconvenient for her to listen to directly. At any rate, in most environments where the noise floor is somewhere around 23db, cassette recordings from CD or LP pretty much sound indistinguishable from LP and real close to sounding as good as CD. I don't think cassettes and cassette decks will ever go away, until God burns the Earth, since there are too many folks out there with questions like: Hey, I've got this cassette, can you copy it to a CD for me? Or, I've got a box of cassettes I need to get out of my attic, would you like to have them?
Old machine, old computer old people, with new spirits....😃👍👍
I also experience that, ....keep working guys ...👍👍🙏🙏
Now, if only someone could bring back LaserDisc...
Old things are amazing. I wish i could see the old years as a child.
They have to now bring back Stereos !!! So we can Record Stuff !!!
I’ve been thrift shopping and since I have an older car I’ve been getting cassettes for it. Only found classical so far but hope to get some “newer” stuff.
Dang I'd love that job. I love tape.
Good work .
Wonderful feeling thanks 🙏 to these types of companies ...hat off .!!
LUV IT !!
Up dated this comment: I still listen to tapes. I still have some from my highschool days. Still good quality. I have a radio with a tape player and a little walkman to pop a tape in. Nice!!⚘
Spazz, I blocked you. Your rude comments were uncalled for.
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It's about time (from 976-CREOLEMAN)!
I still use Tapes in 2018. I just like the machine's and mechanical stuff of vintage audio equipment. I also still use Mini Disc's because why not? CD's are older than Mini Disc. but MD "died" quickly after MP3. Heck there are still music companies and indy guys releasing music on tape. BUT I wish new tape manufacturers would make cool designed big windowed shells like back in the days. also those REEL to REEL tapes that TEAC and some others did.
I always loved BASF tapes back in the 80's. And TWO and Maxell.
I had fond memories of the 1980s decade... cassette tapes... the Walkman Portable Cassette Player:
1. The Sun Always Shines On TV by AHa.
2. There's No Stopping Us by Ollie And Jerry.
3. I'm Still Standing by Elton John.
4. So Emotional by Whitney Houston.
5. You're My Heart You're My Soul by Modern Talking.
6. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) by The Eurythmics.
7. etc...
2:30 that Studer though
These guys have my respect
That will be neat to see that place in person all those machines looks pretty cool do you make blank tapes or just music tapes
THANK YOU!
I think the return will be to allow use of good quality tape and high end machines which are affordable
It may not be as large a mass low end market as before but it should be a larger high end market for recordings personal recordings and new machines.
The utilization will perhaps surprise the skeptics.
So... most of us should feel really bad for no longer having a Walkman or a Hifi Stereo system with a tape deck?? Lol memorable moments!!!! 😀📻
That’s Awesome, I still have more than 300 cassette tapes and the deck player too
I hope for Teddy Ruxpin’s 40th anniversary next year, they remake a few cassettes for him so that we can listen to them for a while.
Where do I get my 1970's portable cassette recorder/player repaired?
I'm lovin it... 😘💓
Making cassettes again is one thing, getting a good player is another. The good ones are 20+ yrs old and dont work anymore.
Wonderful!
THANK YOU STEVE STEPP !!!! I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED AUDIO CASSETTES !!! I WOULD LOVE TO START BUYING THEM AGAIN !!!! BUT MY AUDIO CASSETTE RECORDERS ARE WORN OUT AND THE CURRENT AVAILABLE ONES IN MY AREA ARE DREADFUL !!!! THESE IMPORTED CASSETTE PLAYERS HAVE AWFUL SOUND QUALITY, LIMITED SOUND VOLUME , NO SOUND METERS' NO TONE OR BASS CONTROL, AND THEY CHEW UP THE FEW GOOD QUALITY CASSETTES THAT I STILL HAVE FROM THE 1980'S. COULD YOU PLEASE PROVIDE A LIST OF GOOD QUALITY LOCAL U.S.A. MADE HIGH QUALITY AUDIO CASSETTE MAKERS ? THANK YOU !!!!
Please reintroduce type II tape. And I hope some parts manufacturer reads this and starts making new higher end cassette mechanisms. There's only one that's still produced (it's used even in the Teac/Tascam deck), and it's very basic. If Teac (or some other manufacturer) makes a new dual capstan 3 head deck that's not ridiculously expensive, I'll buy it.
NAC and I think TEAC recently began making CrO2 tapes again.
@@certifiedbruh2180 That's great news, thanks!
Two questions: Are those King loaders? How many pancakes do you bust a month? :-) I worked in a cassette mill in the early 80s and this brings back lots of memories!
I love my vhs tapes cassette tapes I don’t have a vinyl record player yet hopefully I’ll get one of those one day but I will always prefer VHS and cassettes for as long as I shall live because they have always been my favorite they’re easy to use and they last a long time as always you take care of them they should last 30 to 40 years maybe 50 years
SOO COOL!!!!!
Very very good my friend
Awesome!!!
I was worked in Cassette Company in Hub Balouchistan in Recording Section
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I think that's very cool how these guys are open but you still need a device to listen to tapes and unfortunately like me I do have devices but most of them needs repairs and the repairs could be very expensive depending on which brand you're choosing from.
Long live analogue
Nice i love cassette tapes still using them
who else does ?
*Wonderful*
LOVE IT!!!!!