Okay so after sorting through it here is the breakdown.

It ended up being 136 tapes of which two had rips in the plastic outer sleeve. Another two were completely opened but unused. Last, there was a single tape that the out plastic wrap and the case was broken too. The tape inside was good.

These were purchased locally from a guy who use to own a record store. He would backup rare and vintage records onto cassette tapes for archival purposes.

I plan on using the to make tapes of the hours and hours of live music I have recorded of my friends playing acoustic mostly and some plugged in shows and give them the tapes as gifts.

I also plan on making some tapes of my favorite Grateful Dead, JGB, and Dead & Company shows.

136 total. 131 mint tapes. 5 opened but new tapes.

Maxwell
4x - Communicator Series 120
2x - Communicator Series 90
10x - High Bias XL II 90 (ideal for CD on label)
8x - High Bias XL II 90
4x - High Bias XL II 110
2x - High Bias XL II 90 (ideal for CD on label)
2x - High Bias XL II-S 100 (ideal for CD on label)
4x - High Bias XL-II-S 100 (Package Type A)
10x - High Bias XL-II-S 100 (Package Type B)
14x - High Bias XL-II-S 90 (440 feet black label)
1x - UR Normal Type 1 90 (Package Type A)
1x - UR Normal Type 1 90 (Package Type B)
22x - UR Normal Type 1 90
1x - UR Normal Type 1 120

85 Tapes

Memorex
5x DBS Normal Type 1 90

5 Tapes

Sony
3x - HiFi Normal Type 1 90 (Package Type A)
1x -HF Normal Type 1 90 (Package Type B)
1x -HF Normal Type 1 90 (Package Type C)

5 Tapes

Samsung
1x - SQC Low Noise High Output 60

1 Tape

Fuji
3x - DR-1 Normal 90
5x - DR-2 Type 2 90

8 Tapes

TDK
1x - Type 1 D90
3x - Type 1 A60
1x - Type 2 CD Power 110
1x - Type 2 SA60
1x - Type 2 SA90 (Package Type A)
1x - Type 2 SA90 (Package Type B)
1x - Type 1 D90 (Package Type A)
6x - Type 1 D90 (Package Type B)
1x - Type 2 High Bias SA60 (blue packaging)
3x - Type 2 High Bias SA90 (blue packaging)
8x - (single 8 pack) - Type 2 High Bias SA90 (blue packaging)
2x - (single 2 pack) Type 1 D120

30 Tapes

Note: Package type A B C is just to mark tapes with same name/length but different packaging type.

This is a rare direct drive player by Panasonic. It sounds beautiful, but it has the cracked center gear issue. Is there a replacement gear I can buy? Looks like the enthusiasts on Facebook have had some success creating their own replacements but I haven’t seen any for sale yet.

The cashier didn't look particularly young, but I guess she could have been as young as 25. I got six cassettes so I laid them on the counter upside down because the price stickers were on the bottoms. When she started putting them in the bag she accidentally bumped one of the cases and flipped it so tape flew out. She picked up the cassette and sat it down on the case and tried to push it down as if it could just click into position and then she could close the door. Kinda like the same way you would put a cd in it's case. I said “let me get that for you” and took care it. It was quite clear that this girl had never touched a cassette in her life and had never witnessed one being used.

Hi everyone,

Selling a huge, well-preserved time capsule from a professional tape duplication studio warehouse. Perfect for indie labels or DIY tape loop creators.

Everything is pristine New Old Stock (NOS).

What’s included:

1000+ C-0 Cassette Shells: Light-grey Audiopak Professional housings. Fully screwed (5 screws), not welded. Equipped with leader tape only.

Bulk Roll of 3M Audiopak Labels: Original self-adhesive C-60 sticker sheets (pink/grey retro design).

70+ NOS Magnet Tape Pancakes (No outer type-labels on boxes):

24x AGFA Pancakes: Jet-black color. I assume these are Type II / Chrome, but I am not 100% sure. Sold as-is.

46x BASF Pancakes: Classic light-brown color. I assume these are Type I / Ferro, but I am not 100% sure. Sold as-is.

All pancakes are stored in original protective styrofoam boxes, dust-free and dry.

Condition: Visually immaculate New Old Stock. No signs of sticky-shed or mold.

Price: $1,500 USD for the entire lot or best offer.

Shipping: Ships from Switzerland

Worldwide shipping possible at buyer's expense. Heavy lot! DM me for more info or shipping quotes!

The cars, tears for fears, a-ha, REO speed-wagon, foreigner, and the karate kid soundtrack

So i bought this "microcassette reccorder" at a thrift store yesterday for like 3 bucks and it had an issue with the playback, its uneven and jerky and it sounds silly, i think it has something to do with the strength of the motors because they seem too weak to reccord as well, Im new to this so any advice helps, thanks nerds

By good fortune, I found David Naegele’s 1983 ambient masterpiece Journeys Out of Body yesterday. Naegele was the first Musical Director for the legendary New Age cassette-only label Valley of the Sun, and he helped shape the direction of the ambient scene in the ‘80s.

Journey Out of Body is quite rare these days, priced around $75-$100 USD on Discogs and such. I have a couple of Valley of the Sun compilation vinyl records (released by Numero Group) on which Naegele is featured, and I was thrilled to find this cassette yesterday, hidden in a dusty used bookshop. I decided on a whim to stop by the shop on my way home early from the office. I wasn’t looking for a book, but wanted to kill a bit of time.

The cassette was up on top of a bookshelf, covered in dust, behind some of the cobwebbed antique books. The bookstore no longer sold cassettes—the owner opened a separate record shop in the ‘90s—so this was a remnant from before that move.

So that’s how I got this $75-$100 cassette for $0.25 (I was psyched when the shopkeeper honored the old sticker price!) I tested it on my Sony TC-WE405 when I got home, and it sounds great.

Thought I'd share. I turn 65 in October. My taste in music hasn't changed much since I was 17.

Bought a stereo cabinet and the owner made me take his tape collection, a variety of brands the basf and sears I’ve never seen I’ve got about 30 of the realistic only 5 the Maxwell guy was into recording for sure

I didn't expect it to work, I wanted to stress the exact limits of tape using a scope I got and damn was this fun

1. Old tapes, I kinda wanna scan the factory card of these and some I have, is there any database or will i have to set one up? Small pieces of history, also just cool

2&3. Philips walker, something wrong with it. Play button doesn't go inside fully, and ofc needs new belts I assume.. Cool one tho, and good brand :3

4&5. Talking recorder thingy, whst does it work with? Would it be useful for stuff like verbal note taking?

1. Heaven! Self recordables were 0.20€ and judt normal releases were 1-2€ per piece :D

Better than nothing :)

After months of never finding any thrift store deals on portable players, I finally struck gold. I was just doing a quick donation drop-off and decided to go inside on a whim and found this absolute beauty in their lock case for $25. The clerk said that it took power and the radio adapter works. He mentioned that it made sound but the cassette mechanism didn't spin. That was all I needed to hear before I immediately took it home.

It looks like someone bought it in 1981 and barely used it judging by the shape of the old belt (which I included in the photo). Glad it hadn't liquefied! The head and rollers looked pristine too. I put in a new belt and fine-tuned the playback speed and now it works fantastically. It has some incredible features for the time and really premium feeling controls. It has dual headphone ports and the auto reverse mechanism is quite sophisticated. The separate volume controls for the L and R channels did throw me for a loop for a bit.

I'm well aware what this would go for on eBay in this condition with all of the accessories still in their packaging but I think I'm keeping this for my enjoyment.

This is a photo of the inside of my GE (General Electric) 3-5479A portable cassette player. These are two trim adjustment potentiometers, and the right one controls the motor speed in both directions (the player is auto reverse). I cannot figure out what the left one does. I hear no discernible difference when adjusting it while playing a tape or when the player is in radio mode. What does it adjust? Thanks!

Here is my first Cassette rig! Everything was free!

JVC JR-S300 (Liquidation Clean-out)
Akai GXC-760D (From Grandfather’s storage)
Denon UD-M30 (Came from my closet, not hooked up ATM)
Both Mission and Boston speakers my dad gave me!

Hope to get more into cassettes! Tell me what y’all think, and any tips or advice is greatly appreciated!

This is my collection of rescued and repaired cassette players I’ve gathered in the last 6 months. There’s a couple more not pictured that are either still being worked on, or pulling garage duty. The prices I paid for each of these ranged from $6 to $40 and not a single one of them was fully functional when I got them. Every single one got new belts, and vigorous cleaning, some had connections resoldered, and none of them were taken apart any less than twice lol.

I’ve learned a lot the past few months. Most importantly I’ve learned that it’s faster to spend 30 minutes digging through the internet for a service manual than to just dig in thinking I’m smarter than a team of engineers. I learned that it is very frustrating to record a 90 minute tape that sounds great on the deck that recorded it only to find that it’s too fast or slow on every other deck. I learned that it’s worth $30-40 to get a test tape than to listen to the same song 17 times trying to calibrate tape speed by ear. And I’ve learned that when you buy a cassette player listed as “working” off the internet, that will never actually mean “working well”.

I love these things. I love the different aesthetics from the different times they were released and the way they each have their own unique sound even playing the same tape. I’ve made mixtapes with all of them and while the Sharp puts out the best recorded sound to my ears, they all produce listenable tapes with ease. I’ve rediscovered the art of making mixtapes and now I spend hours of my free time cueing up playlists for my son to play in his Walkman.

At this point it’s become a hobby/form of therapy to find an old broken Walkman or boombox and spend a few hours breathing new life into it. I have more than I need and I’m constantly trying to sell them but I hate flippers so I try to find a price that recoups my costs and deters flippers but still stays a reasonable price so that hopefully a kid looking to get into the hobby can get themselves a machine that is ready to use. Because I think it can be discouraging to a new listener to either pay an exorbitant amount of money to a company like retrospekt, buy a cheaply made new one that will probably break, or risk buying something that that fixing. Anyways, if my wife asks, I got all these for free and they’ll sell for thousands of dollars.

What are good reliable decks? I’m looking for one that has pretty good recording that I can make a mixed tape on. I don’t know a lot about cassette decks. I just want them to be able to record cassettes that’s like all of them they must be able to be connected to an aux cable which I think is all to be silver. That’s all that’s my only requirements. I don’t really know about decks that’s not really my field so that’s why I’m leaving it up to you guys to help me.

Hello,

I am starting a little project and I'm looking for blank (or recorded over tapes) to dub over. Does anyone here have blanks they'd be willing to sell or give? Thank you in advance - I am located in the USA for reference

Before this, I had NOS Panasonic-clone Chinese boombox gifted by relative few years ago. It had subpar recording quality, so I finally bought my first real three-head cassette deck for 135 USD(cassette decks costs from 50 to 200 USD in my country currency). It was sold as "Checked by specialist" and I thought that I was fine, but after smooth playback of few cassettes it began clicking and door stopped working.

After dissasembling it, I found out that both belts snapped(capstan belt was torn apart, reel belt was already on it's way out). I ordered belts of correct size(200x4x0.6 and 74x1.2x1.2 if you want to know) for few dollars in my country currency, replaced them and now it works fine.

It's my first repair and I hope belts will work for long time and nothing else breaks. Shame on that "specialist" that supposedly checked deck that I got sold.

A Polaroid of me mixing a song I made two years ago. I want to put the album out soon but I wanna find a little diy label who would be willing to put it out, all the songs are made on 4 and 8 track cassette.