And I'm going to buy more? Oh, yeah!

[NAD613]

Hear are some pics of my available blank cassettes right now, minus the box of 50 Fuji DR-II's from Total Media. Yep, going to buy more this weekend. Not because I want to, but because if the variety of blank cassettes dwindles in the next 10 years like it has the last 10 years, I have no choice but to stock up now.

[Des-Lab]

So seriously. How ARE those Akai tapes? Are they attractive because of their name and low cost? Or are they really a sort of 'sleeper' tape?

Seeing these posts of them over and over is making it awfully tempting for me to get a few boxes of them just to see what all the fuss is about.

Problem is I would have nowhere to store them, being already stuffed to the hilt with (mosty) Maxell and Denon NOS from the 80's and early 90's.

[NAD613]

So seriously. How ARE those Akai tapes? Are they attractive because of their name and low cost? Or are they really a sort of 'sleeper' tape?

Seeing these posts of them over and over is making it awfully tempting for me to get a few boxes of them just to see what all the fuss is about.

Problem is I would have nowhere to store them, being already stuffed to the hilt with (mosty) Maxell and Denon NOS from the 80's and early 90's.

In all seriousness, I really like them, both the GX type II & the SX type I. I have gotten very good results from both of them on my NAD 613. They sound great & I'm going to buy more of them.

Think of it this way; for $35 including shipping (they have a flat $10 S&H fee for orders of $25 or less), you can get 2 boxes of the Akai GX-90($8 each = $16) & 2 boxes of the Akai SX-90 ($4.50 each = $9) from Batteries & Butter. That's a small price to pay for such good tapes, IMHO. That averages out to less than $9/box w/shipping included!

So I guess to answer your question, I'd say a sleeper tape; a tape that slips under the radar. The low cost is just an added bonus. Until a few months ago, I didn't even know Akai made cassettes.

[Web Police]

Problem is I would have nowhere to store them, being already stuffed to the hilt with (mosty) Maxell and Denon NOS from the 80's and early 90's.

You could store some of them Maxell's and Denon's at my house. :D

[NAD613]

You could store some of them Maxell's and Denon's at my house. :D

Believe me, had I known 15 years ago that decent cassette tapes would be so hard to come by today, I would have stockpiles of Maxell XLII-S, Sony HF-S, & Sony UX-Pro. Who knew? Who would have ever thought that something like blank tapes, all my favorites that I took for granted back in the early 90's, would be non-existant today? Also, who would have thought that metal cassettes would be fetching a king's ransom on Ebay? I wish I would have spent a few hundred dollars on metal cassettes back around 1993. I'd be a rich man today!

[Des-Lab]

It's tough storing them. But someones gotta do it. --smokin--

[Web Police]

In 25 years you will have given them all away in name that tune contests. You will have awarded the person making the 1 millionth post on TH's a box or two of them. :D

[Des-Lab]

Well if I were to do that, you'd better WIN them contests. That means you better quickly learn everything I have in my library! ;)

But I don't think I'll host THAT many contests. I gotta keep a few for myself.

But I do like your new avatar. :-?

[Web Police]

But I do like your new avatar. :-?

I think I should try out my new avatar over at AK and see how long it takes for them to delete it. :D

I was just kidding about the tapes. Definitely keep some for yourself.