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Anyone still playing on Cassette decks?

To make my last week short story:
My anesthesia professor gave me some conferences on tapes about 80, I was so curious that I went online right away searching for a decent deck at a good price, but locally I found a guy selling a Yamaha KX-390, he was asking $40, I offered $25 he took it!
I came home all the types were ok, but I start wondering how music tapes will sound trough my harbeth/luxman combo, I remembered that but mistake I ordered a cowboy Junkies album
on amazon, i put it on, an i have been amaze how satisfying tapes could be still, on times where people are looking for HD tracks...
Wondering if any of you will excellent TT and DACs comp based systems, still feel joy playing tapes?

Now i am trying to look for a better deck and studio recorded cassettes in good condition, i want to give a try to the format again, I realized that I enjoying changing formats and sources on my set up.

A good cassette deck advice will be highly appreciated.

Regards to you all.
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french_fries
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i am Just too lazy to transfer the music from all my cassettes onto digital medium, and i can operate a cassette deck in my sleep, so yes, i still have a cassette deck hooked up to my preamp along with a reel to reel- Tascam 122mk3 and a Teac X-2000M Reel to reel deck. a guy in chicago still fixes the teac reel to reels and restores them to where they work like brand new, so while i used to complain about the expense, $350 is not a big deal in retrospect.
the tapes sound muted but i have some really terrific content collected over a LOT of years. i just have to shut off ALL of the dolby noise reduction to restore the higher frequencies.
BTW, does anyone know WHERE i can get a cassette deck repaired, no hassles, by an expert? one or two good references would be appreciated.
i have a Harman Kardon 490 that needs help, and it's too nice to "dispose of".
thanks!
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