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doity
12-10-2008, 11:38 PM
I answered a ad for a linear tracking turntable for $30 on craigslist. I have been looking for awhile for one and this guy was the original owner and he even had a spare stylus and a spare cartridge/stylus in the factory packaging. The brand is Carrera. It works nice and he kept it in good shape.

I asked him if he had any cassette stuff and he says that he has some old cassettes in the basement. He ends up giving them all to me for free and what you see here is probably less than half of them with a few that I intend to keep were kept out of the picture like some unused XLII's circa 1985 or so. I am going to give away the rest at a record store or Goodwill and these mostly include SA-90's and the used XLII's, etc. among others.

Most of the ones without the liner cards are TDK HX-S90's. There must be 20 or more of them, some recorded on some not from what I can tell. And even a few MX-90's with one still being sealed. He also gave me a TDK demagnatizer and a cool cassette alignment and test tape.

I now have more cassettes than I know what to do with and I have been trying to record first with my cassettes that are already opened, so I will likely put most of my big sealed stash collection up for sale soon. I have some good stuff like some different brand/model of metals including some real rare Teac Studio 52G "reel type" ones. If anyone is in the market for blank cassettes check the classifieds section in the coming days.

Larry N
12-11-2008, 06:07 AM
GOOD SCORE

Craigs list is cool for sure, I scored a nice Pioneer turntable with a bad belt and a bunch of 8 track players / cassette, turntable combos and my Superscope Turntable I was talking about in the Welcome Post. Enjoy your find.

Larry N

Scorpion8
12-11-2008, 08:13 AM
Most of the ones without the liner cards are TDK HX-S90's.

I now have more cassettes than I know what to do with ....

As far as the HX-S's .... sweet! Superb tapes. I have 4 from when they were new and wish I had a ISO shipping container full of them.

As far as the 2nd statement above.....uh, don't understand that? You must've missed the obsessive-compulsive training video on stash-whoring that we all went thru to get here. *grin*

doity
12-11-2008, 08:40 AM
As far as the HX-S's .... sweet! Superb tapes. I have 4 from when they were new and wish I had a ISO shipping container full of them.

As far as the 2nd statement above.....uh, don't understand that? You must've missed the obsessive-compulsive training video on stash-whoring that we all went thru to get here. *grin*

You haven't seen how many sealed cassettes I have! Seriously, I am talking close to a hundred or more. The problem for me is that there is not much new music coming out that I feel compelled to tape. If there was I would need all of the cassettes I could lay my hands on.

Scorpion8
12-11-2008, 09:15 AM
You haven't seen how many sealed cassettes I have! Seriously, I am talking close to a hundred or more.

A hundred? A whole hundred? Newbie. *grin* I think folks like NAD613 get in a hundred a month. I try, but since I used up 3 moving boxes to pack my new sealed tapes into the garage to make room for the new sealed tapes that have been showing up since .....

Just joshing ya. Some of us collect "because there won't be any more" soon. You should peruse the stash gallery pages and then see where you need to get busy. *Hi5*

Web Police
12-11-2008, 10:59 AM
You haven't seen how many sealed cassettes I have!

Hmm I lost track but I am sure I have at least 1,000 new sealed cassette tapes. I probably have that many bulk erased used ones too. *scratchchin*

faustus
12-11-2008, 11:41 AM
I asked him if he had any cassette stuff...



It never hurts to ask! Congrats on the buried treasure you dug up.