A package arrived today! Yeah, it had tapes in it.

[NAD613]

Here are some pics of some Emtec/BASF CEII type II cassettes that I ordered. Oddly enough, I found them on Amazon. Some karoke store had 20 tapes left, so I bought them. Aside from Ebay, I'm not sure where you can find these tapes anymore.

[close652]

Nice hoard. These are from the transition period from BASF to Emtec.

[Mr. Lin]

Never heard of this brand. Have you used them before?

[NAD613]

Never heard of this brand. Have you used them before?

Emtec is what became of BASF. According to their website, they still make a cassette, the Emtec Sound I. They call it a an audio "digital" cassette, but it's a type I cassette, available in 60 & 90 minute. Well, I don't know how "available" it is; I have yet to find a store anywhere online that sells it.

http://www.emtec-international.com/en/produit.php?categorie=STMAG&gamme=AUDIO&ss_gamme=AUDIO

[Marc Hugo]

That's the truth NAD 613. Emtec were in Paris I think. A number of the BASF tapes had been made in France and not at Ludwigshafen in Germany even before the sell-off. I am very fond of them. The CS Super is a dual layer tape - extremely vital sounding.

Good purchase indeed.

Marc

[Black Dragon]

Hello countryman ! *reelspin**wave**wave*

[NAD613]

That's the truth NAD 613. Emtec were in Paris I think. A number of the BASF tapes had been made in France and not at Ludwigshafen in Germany even before the sell-off. I am very fond of them. The CS Super is a dual layer tape - extremely vital sounding.

Good purchase indeed.

Marc

I recorded a little bit on them last night & they are near the top of my list for cassettes, just below the Maxell XLII-S. They sounded very good & the tape mechanism was sturdier than I thought it would me. Reminds me of the TDK SM series as far as smoothness in the transport.

[NAD613]

I noticed some of the tapes are different. Once it changed over to Emtec from BASF, the cassettes went to a clear shell.

[NAD613]

I just figured it out; 5 of the tapes are CSII & 15 of them are CEII. The seller on Amazon said they were all CEII. Looks like I lucked into 5 pretty decent tapes.

[Battlesnoopy]

Good find. They really are a good tape and seem a bit overlooked; very clear, reproduces the whole range fairly well and they seem particularly good in my 4track for some reason, comparable to the TDK SA/SM but with a bit more hiss to them. The two that I have in my collection are from the BASF era; thoroughly used and still in fine shape sonically, but a bit rattly during fast winds. I'll have to try one of them in my LX-5 and come back with how it is...