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Mike Czech

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Just scored on 25 BASF 7in LP35 tapes in plastic cases for 50 cents each. They are in perfect shape, no sticky shed and double cased from climate controlled environment. Most have been recorded on with what sounds like an excellent turn table and cartridge.
 
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I am in the same boat, also with a lot of BASF LP35 - all with recorded material on them.

In April, I was given a lot of 15. Of which I have listened to 4. For me, it is always interesting to listen to music that other people favour even if the genres are not what I would normally listen to. Despite that, I am not driven to run them through a bulk eraser.

Someone spent an awful lot of time recording them one song at a time and also compiling a hand written track list for every single reel. That lot of 15 tapes were all recorded at 3.75 so about 60 songs per tape. So give or take about 1,000 tracks.

Last month was a repeat, only worse.

Along with an Akai GX-646 and about eight 10” metal reel of classical music, I was given 50 or 60 7” reels of mostly BASF LP35. Those, I was told, all have “popular music” recorded on them. There was a card file included with them but I haven’t yet deciphered the system of what card goes with what reel of tape. There are many more cards than the 50/60 reels of tape so the time needed to accomplish that is going to be considerable.

I am in my 70’s so it could truly be a lifelong project if I wish to pursue it.
 
In my 70s also. I purchased the BASF tapes for 2 reasons. Reason 1, was the price, reason 2 was that I have a deck that will handle low noise high output bias settings and I wanted to improve my recording quality over the Scotch 207 tapes that I had. Will provide a report on this result coming up.
 
Mike Czech said:
In my 70s also. I purchased the BASF tapes for 2 reasons. Reason 1, was the price, reason 2 was that I have a deck that will handle low noise high output bias settings and I wanted to improve my recording quality over the Scotch 207 tapes that I had. Will provide a report on this result coming up.
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Prior to the two acquisitions I mentioned was another which occurred 10 or 12 years ago. I bought a non working Teac A2300SD for $50 that came in its original box. Included with it was a dozen or so reels of BASF DP26. Those I had no qualms about bulk erasing. They were all recordings of classical music which I do not have the head for.

I made my own recordings on some of them. Single artist compilations of David Bowie, Rolling Stones, Ronnie James Dio, AC/DC, etc.

BASF DP26 is the same formulation as LP35 but on a thinner substrate for a longer spool of tape. 2402’ according to what’s printed on the sleeves.

The recordings I made were stellar so you should be pleased with how your LP35’s perform.

I have not tried Scotch 207 although I do have one reel if it, given to me long ago by an acquaintance. It is only 1200’ which is why I have yet to use it.
 
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