[SoftTalker]

Yeah VHS HiFi was pretty good. Standard VHS audio wasn't even as good as cassette tape as I recall.

People also built data backup devices using VHS tape machines. At the time anyway, the data density of VHS tape was pretty good.

[chiph]

VHS HiFi was very good, but you still had some tape hiss. So I used a dbx 224 compressor to record my 4 hour mix tapes. I couldn't share them since no one else had a dbx box, but it was good for long background music where I didn't have to get up and change CDs. So, like a reel-to-reel but much more compact.

[Aloha]

Cassette Tape (even Type I) has no issue with audio up to around 12-13 kHz