![]() I too have a favorite vintage tape and I've acquired some of it for nostalgia. The cries of $$$$ agony will be heard across all continents. If you think old Maxell is over priced (most vintage semi modern tape is over priced) just consider the prices if the ATR, RTM and Capture lines shut down. Every reel of old TDK Maxell BASF etc that gets purchased is a reel that is not supporting those heroic few reel to reel tape manufacturers. It has been argued before by yours truly and others that the biggest detriment to the modern tape market is the vintage tape market. Shamrock and Realistic were coming from the same doping plants as Ampex 3M etc.īut that was then and a lot has changed. In truth I don't think there ever was a substandard reel to reel tape. Back in the 70's I used it all and I never found a major brand tape that didn't produce good results. Maxell offered fine tape although Maxell didn't actually make the tape they had their name on. Just be glad yours all didn't disappear in the divorce or what ever happened there dude.I know some guys, friends who lost everything in the big D, their wives sold it for pennies on the $ or gave the stuff to the new baby daddys.or.*fit* BF's.*eyepop* The same tapes began popping up online or at EBay a couple years late, for double to triple these prices or more. A 5 pack of them in a pack was 7.99$ - 9.99$ for the 90 minute version in 2002/3 when I bought locally the last time before they all disappeared. Same applied for cassette, I would have bought the hell out of the cassette UDXL-II S or Man In The Chair versions, as many as I could find. Certainly the stores I shopped at locally never know it was coming, and being 1 of 2 places in a 50 mile radius selling the open reel tape, they were selling / sold a lot of tape until the end. Had they alerted every shop I think demand would have increased as people began stocking up, thus they would have had to make it longer to have available as to supply the dealers maybe 4 years longer than they did.Īgain, IIRC, they ended production completely on all magnetic Audio tape in 2002/3, but didn't tell that many people, until they couldn't re-stock the shelves. My beef was Maxell really never told anyone they were discontinuing the open reel and cassette blank media. I have plenty of it, as at 34$ each, they could not even give it away in the end, long after the UD/B-UD and XL-1 were gone. It seems no one had EE capable machines and demand for the EE tape was way low. ![]() The EE 35-180 UDXL II IIRC was made up to the very early 90's or so, was still available NOS at local places in the early 00's. Those they couldn't keep in stock, it seems every one wanted them. Even the XL-I/B tapes were under 30$ each at the end locally. Truly great tape, if I knew then what I know now, at 24$ a box for the UD/B 35-180's at the end, I would have bought every single one I could find, or the stores could round up from their suppliers. I don't have never tried the grey/Black box version. All were bought brand new or NOS after Maxell discontinued them in the 00's. The earlier Gold/Black box versions I have here just don't sound quite as good as the last Blue/Black versions. I wish I had bought more, they are great tapes. I have a bunch of the Blue/Black boxed 35-180 tapes around here I bought when they were still available brand new up to early 2000's locally. They were all supposed to be the same formula, but my ears and machines don't tell indicate that, not even close In between was the Grey/Black version of the UD formula. The last generation of them was the Blue/Black box. The UD 35-7 is their older-oldest incarnation of the UD tape unless I'm mistaken. I've had best luck with the ones that say UD 35-90 or UD 35-180 (B) if back coated).
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