The Last Audio Cassette Factory 

Wiggysan Wiggysan But are they making Metal/Type 3 tapes, or are the making that cheap ferro stuff.

Type 1: Ferro Type 2: Chromium Dioxide Type 3: Ferro/Chromium Dioxide Type 4: Metal

Wiggysan Wiggysan yeah! Love him! He's kind of cute, too.

with a good deck ,and i´m not talking about those decks that in the 90´s cost around 2500 dollars,but the ones that cost from 250 to 500 dollars or even less you can get better sound with a ferric tape then a metal one, not in those compact systems that had a cassette recorder, and people used to prefer chromium tapes then metal tapes, just because the sound wasn´t that better for a normal user,and good metal tapes were to much expensive and would wear out the heads(play/rec and erase) more quikly then other types of tape(and ferro tapes as you can see by the colour are made of rust )and more important ,they last more. i still have from the mid 80´s basf LH-extra I cassetes that were re-recorded 3 or 4 times on a akai deck HX-3 and today they sound very good with no hiss ,and several metal tapes kind of lost their properties, the sony tape metal xr are one of the worth cassetes i ´ve ever heard after listening 1 time they would get descalibrated, but sony had a good metal cassete all white in ceramic casing, the metal xr were cheaper then most of the chromium cassetes

They make ferric tape... :'-(

CASSETTS VINYL CD REEL TI REEL DOWNLOAD IS NOT IS GOOD AS 8TRACK TAPES TRUTH

Ungroomed Lover They are making a comeback all the time.

Edgard Agosto psst Digital Audio Tape > Everything Else

it won't *really* happen until someone decides to manufacturer decent mechanisms again (with properly stable speed, none of that fluttery rubbish), which in turn will allow manufacture of high-quality decks.

@@RWL2012 I bought a Nakamichi from the mid-80s on eBay. Replaced The Idler Wheel and a couple belts and the thing runs amazing. Apparently only one company in China makes cassette mechanisms now.

Parker Brooks I agree, the tape machine was more alive, more physical and, as you say, more satisfying!

Much more satisfying is when you sit and watch the cassette in action! I love it when I watch the tape roll from one spool to the other.

My thought exactly. What do we have now? Invisible, un-touchable, digital files on our computer or smart phone. I do listen to digital music, and I have probably a few thousand music-CD's bought in the 1980s and 1990 (and '00s and even today), but music I have never bought online (and I don't think I ever will).

And that's the key. People simply like the physical aspect. I love the little buggers myself. I have plenty of CDs, but I still like LPs and Casettes. The gain in sound quality isn't worth it, since anyone with a mid quality system can hardly tell anyway.

This comes as no surprise now that society has embarked on a high-tech medieval dystopia. The cassette tape is an icon from a bygone era-a time that the vast majority secretly yearn for.

+Daniel Sultana Right!

+Daniel Sultana kind of surprising the government hasn't intervened on anti-monopoly grounds, maybe they just see it as too much of a niche thing?

They're not forcing the monopoly, it's just no one wants to compete (or thats what seems to be going on

Daniel Sultana true, true.

Of course, as a matter of fact, to seriously mention the word "monopoly" spaking of a company that duplicates cassettes with old equipment they have to service themselves, is just hilarious.

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turboslag. 8TRACKS IS THE BEST EVER. THEY TO MAKE 8TRACK TAPES BADLY

Ditto here...but my old Chrysler bit the dust 2 years ago (it had a cassette deck too). Now, try finding a deck for my plastic Corolla! Fat chance.

Found an old walkman type player for few bucks that can be plugged into AUX jack on newer model cars/stereos. $300 Sony walkman from early 90s for next to nothing in 2020. Got some rechargeable batteries and could probably find cigarette lighter plug to output 3 DC VOLTS needed to power player. Talk about retro soundm cassette over speakers designed for CDs and MP3s and digital satellite stations.

way better than dolby S

Metal tape rec with Dolby S... nice sound!

Sadly, that's highly unlikely!

@@thespeez i'd like to know why it's unlikely. Seems to me they should have the sense to know what customers want...metal tapes ARE the best.

@@johnw2026 - It's highly unlikely as environmental concerns won't allow for them to be produced. National Audio Company once offered Chrome tapes, but both their Audio-Pro Type-IIs and the Studio Master tapes have been discontinued. As I understand the new 'Super-Ferric' from NAC as well as the FOX tape from Recording The Masters are of inferior quality when compared to the old Super-Ferrics from TDK (e.g AR) or the Maxell XL-I.

+Scott Manley hows kerbal space program?.

+Scott Manley I'm surprised to see you here!

+Scott Manley go back and update that crappy space game with real people

What are you doing here, Scott?

Analog and full audio over 90% loss of sound in MP3s - It IS paying off.

Cnupoc This shit company doesn't make Metal cassettes :/

How can you afford metal tapes?! Or a dolby S player!?

You're correct. But those Dolby S players are fairly pricey. Never mind the cost of metal tapes.

I got a Dolby S deck for around €100 two months ago. I don't know the model number but its a Sony one with a motorised drawer loader (like a CD player). It's only a two head deck but works and sounds great.

But my chrysler imperial cassette radio only has Dolby B NR

I’ve used cassettes for target practice. They are not bulletproof…

Me too

I cried when I heard people don't use cassettes anymore

I have all emraan hasmi audio cassette till 2009.

For those that want a top notch,old-school cassette deck,check out "vintage cassette decks".You can STILL buy a Nakamishi Dragoon,ReVox,Tandberg,Sony,Akai,Teac etc.

+331sbf I thought that if it was a"ES"series that would be the top of the sony line back in the 1980's.

+331sbf Well,the one that I have,has the green back lights in it.

Audio casset kahan per taiyar hoti hai

+Ucwepn 1983 is considered vintage now? You damn kids, get off my lawn.

Hey, I was born in 1982, I must be vintage!!! ;)

Ucwepn GET AN 8TRACK. WALKMAN THEY MADE IT. 8TRACK IS BEST AUDIO TODAY

The Realistic Panasonic said the generation that brought us in the economic shithole we are today because they were too busy partying and smoking weed...

I refurbished it myself

Tape rocks!

I m listening to cassetes in 2020

Sam G google and there are pages of them

They are talking about they are the last company that only makes cassettes. I seen all the other ones on google offer cds and other services.

I guess I would say the clarity is about same but sounding as a clean as a CD is not usually my goal when listening to cassettes. I enjoy some of the flaws and lower fidelity of the type 1 tapes. It just sounds unique to me. Perfect reproduction of sound become mundane to me sometimes after listening to CDs. However high quality tapes and stereos are great but I'm fine with a type 1 tape on a mid tier 80's stereo system as well.

​@@mercurialmagictrees I enjoy the hiss of tapes. It's never over powering, the music is always louder than the hiss. But on those silent parts between tracks that hiss adds a relaxing character.

not when they don't ship outside American

That sucks. I wonder where Post/Pop Records gets theirs considering they're in London? Edit: Fixed their and changed it to they're

RetrOhm or all the net labels puttin out vaporwave cassettes in the UK. There is this one company I've found but I think they just buy up old blank tape in bulk

Ryan Heath Yeah. I could see cassettes making a comeback like vinyl has, but we'd need to have more companies around the world producing them than just here in the US. As it is, they aren't as accessible as they should be.

Yeah but I like how it's an underground format with all these bedroom labels putting out electronic and ambient music to noise music

Zaafar Jat not what so ever

pffft, ever heard of black metal?

You open to selling some?

@@EveryoneElseIsWeirdImNormal No not at this time thanks.

MaximRecoil The Teac cassette deck that I bought in 2012 had the option to put songs on repeat and my other Kenwood deck had the option to search/skip to the next song on a tape.