A Brazilian firm "Audiovox" starts producing Reel-2-Reel tapes

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  1. Mystic Traveller

    Mystic Traveller Well-Known Member

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    FB news actually. Interesting.

    K7 Audiovox - mês lançamento linha 2019 e de promoção...
    Normal Bias
    R$80 - 1 unidade
    R$65 - 2 em unidades em diante.
    Cromo
    R$90 - 1 unidade
    R$75 - 2 em unidades em diante.
    Vendas / encomendas - ZAP (21) 99848-0640

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    Those are so cool, I love when new tech meets old world. Maybe somebody can reach out to the company and get an idea of what the company goals are. I'm surprised they don't get on these forums and do some free advertising which helps both collectors, users and guys that want a neat tape for display. I would love to hear the story of how these came about.
     
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    £20 is $100 Brazil dollars. I’d love to know what tape is inside
     
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    One of my earliest postings was a website with NOS cleaning tapes that had the RTR look. My old company must have freaked out with all of the inquiries and updated a very stale website by pulling the listing. I still have a few around here but I haven't seen them in years.
     
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    I have some of these. Very good quality. Easily the best hand-made tapes.

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    I did see some cheaper ones from Ukraine, but from the sellers own photos the quality didn't look to be very good.
     
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    Yeah, a lot of them look like wrinkled tinfoil.
     
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    The Audiovox cassettes are a 100% Brazilian project, developed by me in late 2017, it has grown and made some success among the lovers of vintage audio here in Brazil.

    The main intention was to rescue the nostalgia of REEL cassettes or "rolinho" as we call them here in Brazil and in addition to offer classic models allied to the most current and differentiated designs on the tapes.

    Audiovox cassettes are the result of much research and testing with various materials and components. A number of prototypes were executed in the creation process that did not obtain a satisfactory result until this format was reached and made available for sale.
    All fabricated tapes are tested one by one prior to their final packaging.

    I am a civil engineer and enthusiast in vintage audio mainly cassette deck and cassette tapes.

    All drawings are executed by me, and executed in a metallurgical of a great friend who is not of the branch of vintage audio, he paralyzes its production 1 full day to meet my demand. Due to this factor and others such as price of inputs, labor costs, packaging inserts and etc., I can not make a cheaper price on the cassettes individually. I say however that they are more in account than the rolls of the time sold on the sales pages here.

    I do everything with my own resources and for the love of format. The tapes are made with good quality media and have a modest, almost handmade production. The Audiovox are available in 30 models, preferably in Normal Bias. The chrome models had a small draw but at the moment the kits for chrome are exhausted. I can depending on the kits that I have in stock make all models of the folder in Normal bias 46 minutes and 60 minutes.

    Thank you for your interest in the project.
     
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    Do you have a website?
     
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    This is Audiovox Model Ômega IMG-20190216-WA0027.jpg
     
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    Thanks Claudio, it's guys like you that make this really fun. Your passion and interest gives me inspiration to do just a little more with my collection at the end of the day. This is one of the neater projects, I hope you're rewarded for the work you put into it. If you don't have a website, I'd put some information down below in the market section (if it's ok with the forum), these are really cool items that would look great for any display and I'm sure there's a lot of people on this site that would like to have a few.
     
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    Ok, no problem.
    Thank you for your words, I ask anyone interested in my project and wish to have an Audiovox, visit our Facebook page, where I regularly expose them to the sale. The page is dedicated to vinatge audio equipment in general, cassettes, vinyl and music. https://www.facebook.com/groups/CavernaVintage/
     
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    I would like your "Blade" tape but I don't have Facebook
     
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    same here: I got kicked out of Facebook... twice!... because of inactivity

    Would be great to be able to order through S2G!!! :)
     
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    Checking FB link right now :delighted::delighted:
     
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    Hi, e-mail to order audiovox tapes is audiovoxcassete@gmail.com. Thank you for your interest.
     

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    Hi, e-mail to order audiovox tapes is audiovoxcassete@gmail.com. I can sell outside of Brasil through pay pal. Thank you for your interest.
     
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