Fuji any good?

[retrokeeper]

Hey everyone!! I have a chance to buy NOS Fuji DR 1&2 in the "brick" of 5 for real cheap...are these tape....ok?? Worth getting or leave 'em alone? Rob

[NAD613]

Hey everyone!! I have a chance to buy NOS Fuji DR 1&2 in the "brick" of 5 for real cheap...are these tape....ok?? Worth getting or leave 'em alone? Rob

By all means, get them. The Fuji DR-I is a very good cassette, IMHO; one of the better type I tapes I've used. The DR-II isn't bad for a type II, either. See my review below:

http://www.tapeheads.net/showthread.php?t=309&highlight=Fuji+DR-I

Since that review was written, I recorded some easy listening music on a Fuji DR-I (Jackie Gleason on side A, George Shearing on side B) & that kind of music goes very well with this cassette. I like them so much I bought 60 of them from Total Media!

http://www.totalmedia.com/store/bargain-basement-2480/audio-closeouts-2482/cassettes-2485/fuji-c90-voice-grade-20.html

[MacGyver]

i have had VAST experience with the late model DR-I and II in the past, employing both heavily in making mixtapes for my truck driver ex-father. as such, i can wholeheartedly vouch for their quality and reliability. they survived years of jostling around in a cross-country/canada long-hauler's C.R. ENGLAND truck!! hell, the shells are even screwed together!!

[qubeular]

i have to say the slip sheets seem to go kinda flat sooner than some higher end shells.

ive never had one jam on me tho.

and that cant even be said about some "gold" standard tapes. 1990 vintage xl2s often end up chewed in my playback deck. it could be storage of those particular tapes, they spent a considerable amount of their lives in tennessee, the irony is that no other tape has given me trouble and the winding is perfect if not very close when a tape is played end to end, that is, depending on the condition of the tape.


anyone tried the high bias z? i have a c-100 "double coating" with a mix i made back on my old aiwa deck, from 03' or 04'. an aiwa wx-707 with two heads and fine bias control?

it was good, but i could do better with the 3 head, and i think i will since the other side is blank.

[retrokeeper]

Ok....I snarfed up the last of the Fuji tapes this CD store had,which included 4 bricks of 6 DR-1 cassettes & 6 bricks of 5 tapes of the DR-2's...each brick was $2 each!!Not a bad haul at all....Rob

[NAD613]

Ok....I snarfed up the last of the Fuji tapes this CD store had,which included 4 bricks of 6 DR-1 cassettes & 6 bricks of 5 tapes of the DR-2's...each brick was $2 each!!Not a bad haul at all....Rob

That was an EXCELLENT buy! $2/brick? Geez, I wish I would have been on the ball a year or two ago when stores around here probably had closeout prices on cassettes, especially the mall record stores that are no more. Who knew?