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Message started by Geno on 05/23/22 at 16:58:16

Title: Maxell Blown Away Guy
Post by Geno on 05/23/22 at 16:58:16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU1GwPEOM88

Title: Re: Maxell Blown Away Guy
Post by CAJames on 05/23/22 at 18:01:16

40 years ago? Yeah, that doesn't make me feel old at all.

Title: Re: Maxell Blown Away Guy
Post by Dr3wman on 05/23/22 at 18:27:21

I had not known this was ever a television commercial, I had only ever seen the posters/photos of it. Granted the ad came out a few years before I was born, but that was pretty fun to see.

Title: Re: Maxell Blown Away Guy
Post by EdwardT on 05/23/22 at 18:57:33

It was a good cassette, I used hundreds, maybe thousands, of them to good effect.

Title: Re: Maxell Blown Away Guy
Post by Geno on 05/23/22 at 19:55:10

Yep. Between TDK and Maxell, I used a bunch myself.

Title: Re: Maxell Blown Away Guy
Post by piezoman on 05/23/22 at 21:01:20

That was a funny ad, I remember when it first came out

I'm glad those days are over [tapes], all the way to the annoying CD process which as far as I'm concerned might as well be an 8-track anyway.....be gone with the CD I say! Baawaaaahhhhhh

Title: Re: Maxell Blown Away Guy
Post by Same Old DD on 05/23/22 at 21:25:16

Seen it many times. I'm old too.

Did anyone notice that the speakers were JBL? (Leaders in technology for the times. B&W were close, but so was everyone else)
... and that the cassette player was the crappiest Teac or Aiwa (can't remember from back then - fire the prop master!) you could ever buy.

If I could pay for a "butler," I would have had a Nakamichi. I actually chose Nakamichi players, more than once during that era.

Still, an impressive ad campaign! Long lived.

Memorex ads kind of kicked ass, too.

"Is it real ..." Remember those?

Don't see ads for hi-fi gear anymore, only bluetooth stuff.

I guess my point is that these ads worked. Even today we know them AND we know what the products were they advertised.
They worked!

How many times have you seen an absolutely mind blowing commercial that you still remember, but you have no idea what they were advertising?
;D

"Dummy, that was a beer commercial." "Well, yeah, but which beer?"

Title: Re: Maxell Blown Away Guy
Post by Same Old DD on 05/23/22 at 22:44:58

piezoman wrote on 05/23/22 at 21:01:20:

I agree, Brad, even Redbook CD could improve for us by huge leaps just by companies getting over themselves.
Just by catering to the few who care they would increase sales. The MANY who don't care would hardly notice any difference and CDs could sound so much better for everyone.
But we tender few who DO care would probably buy more.
Sounds like a win for both to me.

As far as giving up on cassettes, we all did that long ago, BUT, I kept my best player and I have things like a very rare "Kind Of Blue" on metal cassette that I will have a hard time parting with. Beatles White Album on FerroChrome, barely played.
Over three hundred old cassettes, similar I will probably not play again, but SHIT!@!!

How do you throw away Miles Davis, Steely Dan, Patsy Cline, Black Sabbath, Jim Croce, Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix Billie Holiday or the Beatles? I've always had all the Beatles, except for when they were still releasing recordings. Then I was waiting for the next.

I haven't found a reason to throw them away, regardless of the format.

Title: Re: Maxell Blown Away Guy
Post by Analogue1 on 05/24/22 at 01:21:08

Yes, the JBL L100s. At 90db sensitivity not the best for a SE84 but what an iconic speaker.

Title: Re: Maxell Blown Away Guy
Post by Same Old DD on 05/24/22 at 02:02:22

True, most folks ran those with Crown or McIntosh sand piles, in those days.

I still have pair of the original Professional Series, Studio Monitor version, 4311, in industrial gray.
They were half decent for 12s. Intended for close field monitors using 75W or so.
Mine are stored awaiting a nip and a tuck. Very close to perfect, but old, in need of restoration. Everyone lost the grilles back then, so no grilles, but still working since 79' when I stored them a few years back.

But they really can not do what the vid depicts.
;D