I know this is all just for fun. Back when they were current models, the store I worked at sold both Nakamichi and Tandberg and a friend of mine worked at a competitor store carring Revox. At a previous store we carried Teac. Tandberg used to come to town to hold clinics too. So we had ample opportunities to compare then all. Frankly the top models were all pretty similar. I left the business owning a Nak cassette deck, Tandberg, Revox and Teac R to R macines, and several microphones, a lot of tape etc. All of it is long gone. The tapes started shedding, broke my heart to take thousands of dollars and countless hours of effort to the dump. Yes some of the R to R sounded a bit better than my records, but not by much. And I think about the complexity of the tape decks and the cost of maintenance compared to the elegance and simplicity of any turntable and there is just no justification for tape for home play back. Even just for fun. It is just not worth it. The only negative experience in my decades of being an audiophile.
