Cassette Tape availability

[Rare Bird]

Ok i asked this on a tape based forum but got nothing i wanted to hear.

My prefered tape is the old 80's TDK:SA/SA-X' buying NOS is a bit hard. I'm wanting around 200 New cassettes so as you can imagine i don't have the time or patience to wait.

The question then is what are the best present production Cro2 cassettes available. TDK i'd rather pass on nowadays.

[Beechwoods]

Have you thought of checking out Dave Cawley for stocks of the 'Phoenix' chrome tape brand? It's basically Maxell XL-II (and Maxell Metal for the limited Type IV), using NOS tape from pancakes, IIRC. Reports have been good, though I've not tried it myself. I understand HiFi World have given it a good review.

Dave is the UK distributor.

http://www.soundhifi.com/tape.html

The back-story is here (http://www.tapeheads.net/showthread.php?t=5940).

[Spectral Morn]

Have you thought of checking out Dave Cawley for stocks of the 'Phoenix' chrome tape brand? It's basically Maxell XL-II / Maxell Metal, using NOS tape from pancakes, IIRC. Reports have been good, though I've not tried it myself. I understand HiFi World have given it a good review.

Dave is the UK distributor.

http://www.soundhifi.com/tape.html

That was the one bit of info missing from the World Review.

Ahhhhhhhh his joining TH makes sense now ;)


Regards D S D L