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TDK SA

Magnetic Particle: Super Avylin

Coercivity: 650 Oe
Remanence: 1650 Gauss
Squareness Ratio: 0.85

Operating Bias: 0.0dB
MOL 315Hz: +4.0dB
MOL 10kHz: -7.5dB
Sensitivity at 315Hz: 0.0dB
Sensitivity at 3.15kHz: 0.0dB
Sensitivity at 10kHz: 0.0dB
Sensitivity at 16kHz: 0.0dB
Bias Noise: -60.5dB

TDK SA was a "work-horse" of type II cassettes. It was the most successful TDK cassette ever. It offered oustanding performance for reasonable price - a deadly combination for the competitors. The formulation is based on Super Avilyn particle - the TDK answer to chrome based type II cassettes. It appreared first around 1974.


Japan

US

Europe

74-75

TDK SA 1974 TDK SA 1974

75-78

TDK SA 1975 TDK SA 1975

79-81

TDK SA 1979 TDK SA 1979

82-84

TDK SA 1982 TDK SA 1982

84-85

Blank TDK SA 1984 TDK SA 1984

85

Blank TDK SA 1985 Blank

85-87

TDK SA 1985 TDK SA 1987 TDK SA 1986

87-89

TDK SA 1987 TDK SA 1988 TDK SA 1988

89

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90-91

TDK SA 1990 TDK SA 1990 TDK SA 1990

92-95

TDK SA 1992 TDK SA 1992 TDK SA 1992

93-94

TDK SA 1993 Blank Blank

94-97

TDK SA 1994 Blank TDK SA 1995

97-02

Blank TDK SA 1997 TDK SA 1997

03-05

Blank TDK SA 2003 Blank

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