I would to buy this old tape cassettes because they are the best
for my Sony TC-158SD portable recorder, but I do not know
where I can do it: do someone help me?

Thanks!

Sergio Fucchi
Macerata
Italy.

In article writes:

I would to buy this old tape cassettes because they are the best
for my Sony TC-158SD portable recorder, but I do not know
where I can do it: do someone help me?

I don't think anyone makes FeCr cassettes any more (nor do they make
TC-158 recorders either). I'd suggest that you find a brand of chrome
tape that you can buy reliably, then take your recorder to a service
shop and have it aligned for optimum performance with that tape.
(bring them a cassette to work with). It will be just fine, and you
won't have a problem finding tape.



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Sergio Fucchi wrote:

I would to buy this old tape cassettes because they are the best
for my Sony TC-158SD portable recorder, but I do not know
where I can do it: do someone help me?

Hello, Sergio--I used a TC-158SD for documentary recording in the mid-
1970s. That was a very nice machine. I still have it ... somewhere.
I also used its predecessor (TC-152SD or 153SD?).

To the best of my knowledge, Sony stopped making FeCr ("type III") tape
about 15+ years ago. This type of type is simply not available any more.

Did the model 158 not support metal type (type IV)? If not, then your
best choice now would be a good type II tape--but I suspect that the deck
will need to be reset so that the recording level is correct with respect
to playback. With tapes of today, the Dolby circuit in the deck might
not track correctly, because a tone which you record at, say, -4 dB might
play back at 0 dB.

Sergio Fucchi wrote:
I would to buy this old tape cassettes because they are the best
for my Sony TC-158SD portable recorder, but I do not know
where I can do it: do someone help me?

No FeCr formulations have been made for nearly twenty years.
Use a chrome tape and get the machine set up properly for the type
of tape you are using.
--scott
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