{"id":2965,"date":"2018-05-26T10:02:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T10:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkman-archive.com\/wa\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2018-05-26T10:02:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T10:02:17","slug":"new-cassette-acquisitions-for-my-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/2018\/05\/new-cassette-acquisitions-for-my-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"New cassette acquisitions for my collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently found an interesting store at eBay from a\u00a0chap that has hundreds of -mainly- sealed tapes for sale: dr Bo<\/a>. I was interested in many of them to complete my collection. Some are pretty rare and difficult to find, so I went and buy some.<\/p>\n

The prices aren’t cheap, even for less rare tapes but as I bought a lot he agreed to lower a bit the final price.<\/p>\n

First of all I got this newly made tapes with custom made cool designs:<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a><\/p>\n

This resembles the old reel designs, like the famous TEAC I often use, but this ones are made with plastic while the TEAC is made by metal discs. I love this Pioneer Design, as well as this Revox:<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a><\/p>\n

I also find interesting this SONY:<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a><\/p>\n

He has also designed a proper J-card for each, even using metallic inks:<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a><\/p>\n

\"New<\/a><\/p>\n

I haven’t tested them yet but I plant to use only for their aesthetics, not for real recording. I don’t expect too much from their magnetic performance but I’ll do a quick test soon.<\/p>\n

I also got this trio: SONY HF-S, UX-S and UX-ES from ’86. As I already got the UX-Pro, this lets me get near the complete series of type I and II. I only left the HF, HF-ES and UX.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Also from SONY I got some rare tapes that weren’t sold in my country (Spain): JHF, EHF, SHF and HFX:<\/p>\n

\"Tape<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Tape<\/a><\/p>\n

And those add to\u00a0the ones I already have: AHF, BHF and CHF. This CHF is the very first tape I got in my life (not that one shown in this photo but another one). It’s in fact my very first mixtape that I recorded back in the late 70s with a mono desktop radio recorder.<\/p>\n

\"Tape<\/a>

Here you can see all the tapes I have now from this series.<\/p><\/div>\n

I also got a few more tapes from\u00a0 SONY. Two very early HF samples from the 70s:<\/p>\n

\"Tape<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Tape<\/a><\/p>\n

And a rare 1st generation type IV:<\/p>\n

\"Tape<\/a><\/p>\n

Also I got a rare Nakamichi EX type II. This one is used but in very good condition. I guess it’s a TDK tape…<\/p>\n

\"Tape<\/a><\/p>\n

And from TDK I got an AR-X from ’90:<\/p>\n

\"Tape<\/a><\/p>\n

And finally a latest generation SA from year 2000:<\/p>\n

\"Tape<\/a><\/p>\n

From this model I got two, one to store and the other for testing, as I’d like to publish something about the TDK SA in the future…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently found an interesting store at eBay from a\u00a0chap that has hundreds of -mainly- sealed tapes for sale: dr Bo. I was interested in many of them to complete my collection. Some are pretty rare and difficult to find, so I went and buy some. The prices aren’t cheap, even for less rare tapes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3001,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions\/3001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}