1/4” open reels sold by TAPEaudio from China on EBay

[Shanghaijack]

Dear all,

Have someone experience with 1/4” open reels sold by TAPEaudio from China on EBay? They have interesting content but I ask myself how they get hands on the sources? Maybe Vinyl Production Tapes uses in Asia? And what they use for creating the copy. I would love to buy The Clash “London Calling” on open real but if it’s a tape recording from vinyl, I could do by myself. I would love to have feedback by a known experienced tape aficionado

Thanks a lot in advance
Roger

 

[astrotoy]

I tried to find their website to see their listings, but with no luck. I have only had experience with ABC Int'l in China (Guangdong) with mixed results. I bought five tapes from them. Three were quite good quality and two had some dubbing issues - sound cut out abruptly before the end of several cuts. I contacted them and they claimed that their master copies had the same issue. ABC Int'l also plagiarized quite a bit of written material from Tape Project, which I showed to Dan Schmalle of Tape Project. He looked at their website and said he was skeptical that they had access to master tapes for a lot of their titles. Not sure whether TAPEaudio is the same company. Larry