thanks for those scans. I love that deck, it's so cuute. Don't you have full size scans, uncropped of all the pages?
I too bought that copy of What HiFi! I don’t know what happened to that particular cassette, but I’ve just been gifted a box of ‘old tapes’ and look what I found amongst them! edit: In fact there are three of them! But only one That’s box…
I was looking a little deeper into Taiyo Yuden, wow they had a ton of stuff, and still do, a multi-billion dollar company today. With CD-Rs they called their product "Master Grade Archival Media" and it looks like they were into the high end for both tapes and CD-Rs.
I just rode home through the streets of Munich on my bike listening to some 2026-release techno (Octo Octa), charlie xcx' "Von Dutch" and some Modeselektor and T'Pau "China in your Hands" (yeah my mixtapes r dope) recorded onto a 1979 BASF chromdioxid (playing on a nothing-special-but-well-maintained Sony WM-FX415) and it all sounds absolutely incredible and I am absolutely LOVING life and this thread :-D Perhaps I got lucky with the BASF's I picked up and yeah I put in good effort on the dub, and I know we are talking about "That's" but I gotta say they just sound... absolutely amazing... I just needed to share this with people who understand... That's cassette, folks... Wishing you all a safe evening/morning/afternoon wherever you are, Lara