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Rich Malloy · 08-03-2003, 10:29 PM

It's been awhile, but I used to use blank cassette tapes extensively. While both are probably the two best brands of chrome tape readily available, I used the XLII-S. Maxells were kinda the coin-of-the-realm in the tape-trading community, so that probably had as much to do with it as anything. As I recall, I thought the casing was sturdier and the mechanism quieter on the Maxells (when I was using them anyway, and only the XLII-S, not the regular XLII). As for sound quality, I never attempted any serious comparison, but I was always satisfied with both brands.

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Rich Malloy Member Join Date: Apr 2000 Local Time: 03:09 PM Local Date: 11-22-2008 Posts: 6,204	It's been awhile, but I used to use blank cassette tapes extensively. While both are probably the two best brands of chrome tape readily available, I used the XLII-S. Maxells were kinda the coin-of-the-realm in the tape-trading community, so that probably had as much to do with it as anything. As I recall, I thought the casing was sturdier and the mechanism quieter on the Maxells (when I was using them anyway, and only the XLII-S, not the regular XLII). As for sound quality, I never attempted any serious comparison, but I was always satisfied with both brands. \"Only one is a wanderer; Two together are always going somewhere.\"