Francois Dion

Going through a whole box of unsorted tapes, ran into this demonstration tape for Panasonic. Late 60s from what I'm listening to... #tape #cassette

I got to set up a little box for those kind of tapes.

Feb 26 at 2:08amWeb
Show threadFrancois DionFeb 26

Looks to be pretty rare as it is not even on discogs. Plenty of other ones, just not that one...

https://www.discogs.com/label/1137467-National-Panasonic

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Show threadEmsquaredFeb 26
@f_dion I used to have a few like this. The Japanese ones,particularly JVC just loved filling the impossibly short tape with a very Japanese brand of soft jazz fusion. The young me was very confused.
Show threadEmsquaredFeb 26
@f_dion Amazingly I found one. Think this came with Dad's music centre. Cheesey mor music on side A and the B side was for recording, still intact and transferred featuring family chatter in stereo (top of the pops is on in the background so can date it very precisely) and a very irritating young me interviewing my grandparents. Still amazing to listen to this on headphones. #cassette #cassettes #VintageAudio
Show threadFrancois DionFeb 26
@emsquared does yours sound lofi? I mean, for a ferric from the 60s that's been who knows where, I should be glad ir plays at all... but for a demo tape I guess I was expecting a bit more
Show threadEmsquaredFeb 26

@f_dion This one was certainly nothing to write home about but then cassettes never really improved enough for a higher fidelity boasting until the mid to late 70s (once high energy cobalt doped ferrics and high bias & chome tapes came in) plus that whole azimuth alignment thing where your home players head went out of alignment so tapes from other machines sounded woolly.

I had / have(?) a JVC demo tape on Metal tape which must be circa 1979 and that's at least a good HiFi demo of capabilities. I never felt pre-recorded tapes sounded halfway good until the 80s. Home recorded material was often better sonically imho.

Yes it's amazing these tapes play at all I mean albums on pro master tapes are often found to have lost their high end and suffering dropout as they age and many of those have been well stored in salt caves etc.