All was going well until side B, the first two minutes I had tape skewing and my JVC V661 has never done that to any tape. So I had to start the recording 2 minutes into the tape which is where it settled down back to normal. I have read on TH that other people have had similar problems, one mentioned that there was some shredding problems and another said that it was dirtying the tape path. It didn't dirty my tape path though. I think TDK may have had some shell issues with these which may be why they discontinued them. The shell seems like the typical high quality TDK to me so not sure where the problem is exactly.
All that aside, when functioning properly, I agree its a very dynamic tape and does give the SA-X a run for its money.
That is annoying!
I have also read accounts of the HX-S being troublesome. I think that is just the nature of the beast. Recording with tape never runs smoothly 100% of the time.
Cool pic Ben. Always happy to see compact discs feature in this fine thread.

