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From: shop@uwmcsd1.UUCP (Electronics Shop)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: advice requested on brands of cassette tapes
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 21:24:19 EST
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> I just bought a cassette deck and am unsure which tape to buy.  The
> manufacturer (Akai) recommends all the major brands of tape.  Next
> to the TDK SA there is a note that this is a reference tape.  Does this
> mean this is the best tape?  It's a bit confusing since the TDK tapes
> say reference on the box.  Friends around here use the Maxell XLII.  
> I'll be recording a mixture of rock, folk, and classical, and probably
> using dbx.  Any advice would be appreciated.

The reference tape is the tape the bias and equalization are optimized for.
I like the shell of TDK (plus my deck is optimized for them) but I can't
hear a diffirence between TDK SA and Maxell UD-XLII-S.

Thomas Krueger
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Engineering Electronics Shop
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