Collection of Pre-recorded High Quality Tapes

These are the pre-recorded high quality tapes from the mid 80's which I managed to purchase from the one and only shop in town. I test it with my Nakamichi player and I just can't believe the sound reproduction!

 

These are pre-recorded tapes manufactured from a company in my country back in those days. The quality is way above those original tapes from EMI, WEA, Virgin and etc. They have very good decoder system to enhance the recording performance. Now it becomes a collectable items to me and it's extremely limited.

 

I cannot afford to buy these tapes back in those days, what can I say I was just a high school student at that time. Now I purchase it for 10 MYR which is less than 4 USD. No change in the price but just imagine the inflation rate over the span of 35 years.

 

Ooh! Very nice! Interesting to see these kinda stuff from Malaysia, as we have similar local high-end stuff in Indonesia.

Am I right in thinking these are "bootleg" audiophile recordings like their Indonesian counterparts? The design & lack of copyright data leads me tho think that... It's worth noting that all Indonesian cassettes in back then where "bootleg". Licensed stuff didn't appear until the 90's. It'll be interesting to know is that's the case in Malaysia as well?

 

All these are considered pirated tapes, some stores were selling at their own risk. Apparently there are also cheap pirated tapes selling at 10MYR for 3 tapes.

 

Here are some of the illegal vintage cheap tapes available in the market back then. I believe you have never seen this before especially for those in Europe and US.

 

This one from year 1985 and still sealed!

 

Here are some tapes I bought in Indonesia when I was an expatriate working in Batam. There are genuine stickers to certify true copy

 

Ah.. A bit like the Indonesian market then, but it's rather worse here. Up until the 90's we don't have those official stuff (unless they're imported). All were pirate labels, and they compete with each other to release the best quality recording. Meaning that the same album would be released by multiple labels.



The older stuff usually used a generic cover with a photographic copy of the album art pasted on.

Those Indonesian cassettes you have are official licensed products, as can be seen by the name of the labels on the stickers. The stickers, though, are just certifying that the company is licensed to sell cassettes (of any music, licensed or otherwise) and has paid their sales taxes. Pirate label stuff sometimes have those as well.



As for the audiophile stuff, here's some of them. All excellent recordings done on metal tape, retailing for twice to quadruple the price of your normal cassettes.
I'll probably make a comprehensive thread on these when I get the time to take proper pictures.

 

Sorry Hugo for the late reply, I was away due to some unforeseen circumstances. As mentioned in my post, I actually purchase these dbx tapes and not doing the recording on my own.