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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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lloydc
740 posts
 
I weeded out my old bootleg cassettes. Only kept a few thousand.
french_fries
815 posts
 
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!
buconero117
2,311 posts
 
Of course, my Nakamichi Dragon is going strong. Still state of the art, and many of the 2,000 cassettes I have do sound good. Analogue never dies.
jsd52756
421 posts
 
My Toyota Avalon has a cassette player and I use it often. I was listening to "1983 top 105.5 songs" I recorded off 105.5 KNAC this morning on the way in to work.
Alway brings back good memories of times gone by.
-John
rshak
416 posts
 
About 11 or 12 years ago I bought a Nakamichi DR-10 from J&R in New York. That model listed, as I recall, for $900. and was being closed out at $299. It's a 3-head deck with quite a few bells and whistles and makes quite good recordings. i bought it to record a weekly Saturday evening jazz program (Milestones) produced by Miles Willis for KPFT (Houston).Each program was recorded on two 90-minutes cassettes. I accumulated several years of the programs until Mr. Willis left Houston for D.C. The DR-10 still works great, and I still listen the tapes on an ocassional basis.
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