Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwmcsd1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!uwmcsd1!shop From: shop@uwmcsd1.UUCP (Electronics Shop) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: advice requested on brands of cassette tapes Message-ID: <579@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 21:24:19 EST Article-I.D.: uwmcsd1.579 Posted: Wed Oct 30 21:24:19 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 04:20:16 EST References: <10838@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Distribution: na Organization: U of Wi-Milwaukee, Computing Services Div Lines: 18 > 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 -- Engineering Electronics Shop U of W - Milwaukee ihnp4!uwmcsd1!shop uwmcsd1!shop@wisc-rsch.arpa