Audio Magnetics XHE II - 1979
A Swiss AudioMagnetics S.A. series manufactured in Portugal 🇵🇹, for the European market. XHE released type I, II and IV tapes and were accepted as good quality cassette tapes. XHE tapes are rarely offered.
Personal Note: A High Bias formulation with the typical 70μs type II setting. Here, AudioMagnetics boasts about their patented "Paraflo" special jam-proof mechanics. I actually bought 2 of these in 1981 while on one of my trips to Portugal, and had a High Fidelity store record me one full mix-tape, which I still have, and it plays just like it did 45 years ago, and counting... So much for the tape degradation theories...
Note 1: 90 Minutes: 100% Sealed and new. The wrappers are brittle; they open and split randomly. This is a very common occurrence with tapes from these years (1975-1980), including those from most top brands such as TDK, Maxell, Sony, Fuji and BASF. See pictures. Very few available
Side Note: These will each be put into a new custom cassette bag to keep the wrapper from further degrading when being handled.
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About AudioMagnetics:
Audio Magnetics was a manufacturer of magnetic tape products based out of Switzerland and very little else is known about this company. Some of their 1978 released tapes were manufactured and distributed in Portugal 🇵🇹 and possibly released in the UK and Ireland.
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