017: Sony UX-Pro Comparison!

Sony UX-Pros are high-quality Type II cassettes. These were made in the mid-1980's and probably early 90's. In this video, we compare two cassettes from two generations.
As always, thanks to the wonderful vintagecassettes.com for historical info.

[@olaniyi570]

I like the bigger window and overall design of the older generation cassette better.

[@chrisd5610]

Always super satisfying to see NOS cassettes being opened and used! 👍

[@psg9322]

These cassettes have a good design! As for me design of cassete is better for recent UX PRO. But the package for second cassette from 80s is more interesting.

[@darinb.3273]

I don't know exactly why it is so mesmerizing to watch the cassette hubs spin in a machine as it records or plays even f forward or rewind draws me in.
It's like watching a vinyl record spin producing a sound from a micro squiggly "V" shaped groove. No groove on a magnetic tape yet still produces an amazing sound quality (of course tapes of that quality absolutely should be recorded on a quality machine and enjoyed for many enjoyable plays afterwards. I grew up listening to many an hour of music on cassette as I'm sure many others watching this video did as well. Great video 😄😃.

[@JAZZMAN72762]

Tape Geek,you need to add a TDK MA-R90 or MA-XG90 to your collection, a must have to us Tape Heads collection

[@TapeGeek31]

It IS time for a TDK! And that's a great tape! Thanks for the suggestion.

[@bletheringfool]

I would guess that the newer cassette is from the early to mid 90s. It has for CD on it but no web addresses. They tended to start putting websites on labels from the late 90s

[@TapeGeek31]

Good observation. Thanks for watching!

[@chrislemaster2695]

I have almost every Sony Letter tape from 1978-1991 in my collection and most are unopened

[@cedrickjmackniddle3861]

Keep these coming

[@antonelrotaru20]

Cool and good looking cassettes. Keep it up with videos like this!

[@peterwikvist2433]

The SONY UX-PRO with gold packaging is for the US market and made 1992-94.

[@TapeGeek31]

Thanks! And thanks for stopping by!

[@KR1275]

We had these in the Netherlands as well.

[@oscarflores1980]

That UX-PRO tape is from 1993-1995

[@KR1275]

The later version had no ceramic guide anymore. It was made of plastic.

[@chrislemaster2695]

The newest Sony UX pro ccame out Christmas of 1991

[@sc0or]

1992-1994 US market