So I'm looking at a Teac reel to reel deck going for $25. It comes with 6 tapes, which judging from the prices on ebay is a pretty good deal. What I'm wondering is if anyone can tell me about the kind of life I'd be getting out of these tapes. I don't plan to record too much (I'm not in a band or anything) but my friends and I would probably be making recordings from time to time and I expect that I would eventually want to reuse some of the tapes; how many times can you usually write to these before you start seeing a noticeable degrading in sound quality? John -- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn