MA-XG

[Van Presence]

Picked this up last week

 

[ford93]

I still love the look on these and believe or not you can re-record on these over and over and they will perform quite well!

 

[T-STER]

Yeah gotta love that ally frame

 

[jimmyjimmy19702010]

I still remember not being able to eject a heavy arse MA-XG from the deck in my dad's brand new car! Ended up damaging the eject motor in the process. Had to go back to the car dealer to pull the deck to get the tape out!

My dad was not impressed!! 😆👎

 

[Van Presence]

Yea I never knew there was such a saying as "dam this tape is heavy" Couldn't believe how heavy it is.
It's never been recorded on but was opened.

 

[ford93]

Would love to get my hands on another one of these:

 

[Ceestarrs]

I still have some MA-XGs and possibly one of the original MA-Rs in one of my many boxes of tapes.
Never seen an SA-XG, pretty sure they weren't on general sale in the UK. Nice looking bit of kit : )

 

[goodman]

Inside look of TDK MA-XG:
http://compactcassette.weebly.com/tdk-ma-xg--1992-1995.html

Browsing menus on this site you can find many interesting things about cassettes.

 

[jimmyjimmy19702010]

For some reason, I experienced tape breakage issues with this model of TDK tape - issues I never had with other models of TDK tapes!?

 

[ford93]

For some reason, I experienced tape breakage issues with this model of TDK tape - issues I never had with other models of TDK tapes!?

JJ what do you mean breakage?

 

[jimmyjimmy19702010]

For some reason, I experienced tape breakage issues with this model of TDK tape - issues I never had with other models of TDK tapes!?

JJ what do you mean breakage?

The tape itself used to break (normally within a few minutes from the start/end of the tape).

 

[ford93]

For some reason, I experienced tape breakage issues with this model of TDK tape - issues I never had with other models of TDK tapes!?

JJ what do you mean breakage?

The tape itself used to break (normally within a few minutes from the start/end of the tape).




It could have been the deck. Some decks were known not to handle these very well because of the weight.

i never had an issue with MA'.

 

[jimmyjimmy19702010]

For some reason, I experienced tape breakage issues with this model of TDK tape - issues I never had with other models of TDK tapes!?

JJ what do you mean breakage?

The tape itself used to break (normally within a few minutes from the start/end of the tape).

It could have been the deck. Some decks were known not to handle these very well because of the weight.

i never had an issue with MA'.Hmmm...... Apart from that one time I played it in my dads car, I only ever used MA-XG tapes in my parents high end HiFi deck as my boombox at the time couldn't handle metal tapes.

It was weird how the tape never broke at the very end but 30 seconds to 1 minute from each end. That HiFi deck was near new at the time and didn't cause other brands of tape to break!? Who knows. Maybe my local batch of MA-XGs were faulty!?