From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!uwvax!bill Newsgroups: net.records Title: Re: cassette brands - (nf) Article-I.D.: crystal.152 Posted: Thu Dec 30 12:19:21 1982 Received: Sat Jan 1 02:42:51 1983 References: mcnc.1443 I also have been burned by BASF. The mechanism is extremely unreliable; I let a dealer talk me into 10 of the lousy things recently, and two were unusable out of the box. Although they exchanged them, I would never trust anything of value to a BASF cassette. I have used Larksong Cassettes (typeI only), made somewhere in California [if anyone wants address, send me mail] with great success -- no failures in 200+ cassettes, nice boxes and labels, quiet, and relatively inexpensive if you order with several other people (quantity 180 assorted, C60 is around $1.25 last time) bill cox bill@uwisc ...seismo!uwvax!bill