When setting recording levels on the cassette deck a standard cassette at a low bias setting should not peak higher than 0 VU. Chrome tapes at high bias setting can record a signal +3 db above 0 VU, ...

Cassette tapes were a major way of listening to (and recording) music througout the 1980s and 1990s and were in every hi-fi stereo, boom box, and passenger vehicle of the era. Their decline was ...