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I have been looking for the Teac Cobalt 52 tape
but havent been able to find it anywhere.
I know it has been sold on Ebay for over 50Usd.Now i found someone having one Teac CRC chrome 60 min tape
he is asking 40 Us dollar for it.Is this a good price for a Sealed Teac Crc tape
or should i keep looking for the Teac Cobalt 52 tape
hoping to find it for around 40-50 Usd ?What is the difference in Quality material
between TEAC CRC and TEAC Cobalt except for Teac being of higher possition.I was just getting a Teac Tape mostly for the design
since i never had one, and would love to have a tape
(in my old collection) with golden (looking) reels.Now i know is not the famous "Cobalt 52"
but is CRC good?
is Cobalt 52 more heavy,solid and Expensive material
or is Cobalt 52 and CRC just the same tape
the only difference is the possition
(cobalt is metal? and Crc is chrome ?)So my question is:
1. Difference between TEAC CRC and TEAC Cobalt52
2. Is 40Usd a good price for TEAC CRC or should i instead try to get Cobalt 52.I know it give a special feeling to have
the famous "Cobalt 52" tape
but if the CRC is just the same only being chrome
then maybe 40Usd is a good price?I have see people saying even TEAC Sound52g (normal possition)
for as high as 30usd and it also has the golden reel look.I know Teac made many Reel tapes
so there is probaly Normal, chrome and metal (cobalt) possitions.I dont know if i should spend
40 Usd on a Chrome tape
just because is Teac and has this golden real.
maybe if it was the famous "cobalt 52"Can you give me any suggestion here.
Follow Ups:
Cobalt is not "METAL". It is a similar formulation as the Chrome-Dioxide ( CrO2 ) tape formulation which was developed by Philips and Dupont and later sold the technology right to BASF. Since BASF refused to license this Chrome-Dioxide technology to the Japanese competitors so the Japanese developed the Cobalt technology that is compatible with BASF's CrO2. This is one reason you don't see much Japanese Tape vendors mention "CrO2" on their Label other than "High Bias" and "Type-II" because they are no license to do that.The CRC-Chrome and Cobalt-52 are basically the same TYPE-II "High Bias" tapes. If a tape does not mention CrO2 then it is not pure Chrome-Dioxide. TEAC did make some Metal TYPE-IV in reel format. I have this kind of TEAC reel cassette in all three types ( I, II and IV ) and I would judge their sonic performance as poor.
All these reel cassette tapes have very appealing "LOOK" and command high collector value in the market. Also the reels actually would produce skew on the tape run since they sometimes get contact with the shell.
There is no question that this type of tape has very good looking !!
Hope this help.
Mike
Do you have A photo of the Teac Metal tape?
No, I don't. However I can tell you that it looks actually the same as the COBALT and CRC-CHROME except that the reel is silver in color ( TEAC has made a number of this kind of tape with various reel colors ).The letters on both reels say the following:
TEAC STUDIO 52 Bias/Metal EQ/70us
Honestly speaking I won't pay $40 for this type of tape.Hope this help.
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