This cassette is an ideal recording medium, offers superb audio quality, incredibly high dynamic rage and frequency response. By utilizing the exclusive Maxell Ceramic Armor Metal particle, measuring just 0.2microm in length, with a thin ceramic layer only 20A in thickness, Maxell's DAT delivers flawlessly high performance strength characteristics, achieving high output and consistency. Developing a unique 5-layer construction to maximize the properties of Ceramic Armor Metal Particles was the key to the success in design of the Maxell's digital audio tape. Using Maxell's new HED binder system to bond the densely packed magnetic layer securely to an ultra smooth base film plus the back coating layer, creates a stable running tape. Maxell's DAT has also attained an unprecedented level of accuracy and reliability with the construction of a special dust-free environment to shut out contaminants. The DAT cassette shell is constructed using super heat-resistant ABS, a new material, so precise and heat-resistant, that Maxell's DAT achieves incredible accuracy and sustained durability. Maxell has triumphed again producing for the audio world a superior digital audio tape. Maxell DAT. No hiss noise, wow/flutter or distortion. Incredible high dynamic range and frequency response.