I'm the one...
I'm the one who's apparently been hiding under a flat rock for a decade or two,... that I was dismayed at the fact that the price of tape had
doubled since my heyday of buying reels retail.
Thru a few of the Post-2K years I'd been finding mind boggling & unbelievable deals for reels on clearance at a particular media supply house, out-the-door for $1/reel,... of which I'd snatched up dozens! This included new 1/4" media on 7" reels and even 1/2"! There was a variety of 3M and Quantegy media I'd scored. Emtec 911 and 900 (1/4"~10.5"), too! There was a case of 10.5" 631 1/4" tape that I'd passed on for $1/reel, just to back out gracefully and review if this was a good media for me, whereupon my returning the following week to purchase, it was all gone. You snooze, you lose!
Did anyone catch the post where I scored a 14" reel of 2" BASF 468 tape for $55? That's a $355 reel of tape, (5000')! Does anyone know how truly huge a 14" reel of 2" tape is? Don't ask me why,... it was in hopes that I'd find a suitable Tascam ATR-80/24 to put it on, but that has eluded me all these years. I saw one for $4500, but at the time I didn't have that kind of scratch. I got the reel, though!
Likewise, I'd found an outlet for "456 compatible 031" new media from Quantegy, (456 media that didn't pass QC at the factory),... that I'd bought 2 cases at $2.99/reel, 80 reels of 1/4" tape on 7" spools. Of the few reels I've had opportunity to use, I've not found any defects or anything unsatisfactory about this tape.
Honestly, I have bins & bins full of reel media and cassettes. Dozens and dozens of reels and well over 1000 cassettes, of new media. So much that I could become a scalper myself, but that's not where my head is at. I'd have to take inventory to quantify it all. It's a lot, though.
Nonetheless, I'm encouraged that Quantegy would be giving magnetic media manufacture another go-round. I'm hoping for the best in Quantegy's recovery. After all, isn't RMGI an Dutch concern? Shouldn't the USA be preeminent in any technology market it practically founded? I don't want to get on a tangent that the US nipped this technology from the Nazis. That's another post, maybe for the Cave. I just think the US should reassert it's preeminence in this field, for now before the tape market goes the way of the dinosaur.
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OT: Hey, has anyone noticed that SIGNATURES are back??
/DA
I hadn't heard about this. I thought their stuff was fine. So Quantegy NOS from 95 to 2003 and NOS BASF and EMTEC is the only you're buying? Where are you buying this from?
Easy cleanup but not acceptable to work with. Personal experience. I had a bad roll and RMGI replaced it no-charge once they confirmed that it was from a bad batch and had reasonable assurance that I wasn't running the tape on a belt-sander.
