SKC CD - 1992 - EU
"SKC made many tapes for other companies, like Memorex and their quality was always good and sometimes, exceptional. Here is their Top-of-the-League Type 2 from the early 90s...and it's a Pure Chrome! Use it in a deck that has manual bias and level controls, keep them at about 0db and you'll find that these are superb sounding Type 2." Tony Villa.
CAREFUL! These are pure Chrome Type 2 cassettes - If you have a deck calibrated to Ferro-Cobalt Type 2, typically Japanese 2-Head decks, you will need to calibrate to these pure Chrome cassettes to get the best results.
Many cassettes say, "Chrome POSITION", but do not use any chrome particles in their tape formulation at all. BASF developed the first Chromium Dioxide "Chrome" tape and patented the technology. Most other manufacturers did not want to license it, and therefore, their Type II tapes are cobalt doped ferrics.
Why use true chrome tapes when they do not take a lot of signal? The benefits are: Extremely low hiss and brilliant reproduction, but they should be recorded at 0db levels. Best for music with a high content of classical, instrumental, and jazz sounds. Again, unless you calibrate your deck(s) to use pure chrome tape, they will sound horrible. Careful: Absolutely no returns or refunds on any true chrome tapes.
Note 1: 60 minutes: Only a very few remaining.
Check out and enjoy Tony Villa's great video on his review of this brilliant SKC CD and SKC AX tapes! Yes, I miss his cassette reviews as well...
ABOUT SKC
SK Group (Korean: SK그룹, 에스케이그룹), also known as SK Holdings, is one of the largest conglomerates (chaebol) in South Korea. SK Group is composed of 95 subsidiary companies that share the SK brand and culture named SKMS (SK Management System). It changed its name from Sunkyong Group (Korean: 선경그룹, Hanja : 鮮京그룹) to SK Group in 1997.
SK Holdings ranked 57th in the 2013 Fortune Global 500.[3] SK Group has more than 70,000 employees who work from 113 offices worldwide. While its largest businesses are primarily involved in the chemical, petroleum, and energy industries, SK Group also owns South Korea's largest wireless mobile phone service provider, SK Telecom, and provides services in construction, shipping, marketing, local telephone, high-speed Internet, and wireless broadband (WiBro). On March 20, 2010, SK further broadened its range of business to semiconductors by merging Hynix into SK Hynix, the world's second largest memory semiconductor manufacturer.