Cassettes.......pre-recorded and otherwise....


WHile most serious audiophiles have disowned pre-recorded tapes since their mid-80s heyday when they outsold LPs(or even before) ...they were never known for hi-fidelity and for good reason...cheap tape and hi-speed dubbing made them unreliable and almost unlistenable...however home-taping...in real time...with a decent tape...and recorder..was a significant improvement...however by the time this process really advanced...dolby S, etc...the CD had surpassed the cassette...at any rate...any decent pre-recorded tapes that come to mind? I know BASF chrome was used briefly in the 80s...and HQ cassettes in the 90s...any others?
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I recently purchased a re-conditioned Nakamichi CR-7A from a local stereo repair shop. I immediately began shopping for cassettes since I had only a few remining from the 70s.
They are incredibly inexpensive now that noone wants them. I bought most of them from used record stores here in the SF bay area. Many were purchased, unopened, in their original plastic wrappers with prices like $10.99 on them.
I got most of them for 4/$1.00...TWENTY FIVE cents! They sound great in my system through the Nakamichi. The sound
approaches CD quality on the newer ones. No lie...check it out!