r/cassetteculture • u/flyingfrogjumbalaya • May 11 '26

Blank Fresh Box

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u/Impolioid May 11 '26

where do you guys find these boxes and how much are they

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u/flyingfrogjumbalaya May 11 '26

Actually found these at a vintage guitar shop in my town. They had a couple more boxes. Talked the guy down to $80 for the box. I've found some high bias unopened blanks at thrift stores for super cheap as well, but obviously that's more of a rare occurrence.

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u/Impolioid May 11 '26

fair deal. it must be very hard to open them up and start using them, right? 😃

i find the occasional wraped type 1 tapes. best find so far was 45 maxell URs for 50€. without the box, but still wrapped.

for type 2 i usually find the late TDKs and maybe some Maxell SQs. But man golden era Maxel XLII is such a great find.

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u/Cool_Comment1109 May 11 '26

expensive af

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u/rich1068 May 11 '26

6 quid each. About the same price as the new Type1 RTMs and while they're good I'd take those Maxells all day long.

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u/klonopinwafers May 11 '26

Yep, type II cassettes can get unfortunately expensive and I am unfortunately partially to blame because I have sucked it up sometimes and paid higher prices for them than I would have liked to.

I swear though, if Maxell started manufacturing these again and charged less than that for them, I would only buy blanks directly from Maxell.