I hadn't owned a cassette deck for yonks until I bought this one off ebay recently.



I'd forgotten just how good cassettes can sound.
Anyone using the main contender a Nakamichi Dragon or any other makes? Lets see them.

Well, makes a change from turntables and cd players if nothing else.

Proper VU meters. Mmmmmmm

This post brings back memories. I was about 14 years old when I bought my first CD player. CD was new and expensive. I bought some of Aerosmith's latest albums on CD (which I already owned on tape). I think they were "get a grip" and "pump". Although CD got rid of the tape hiss I felt that music sounded more involving on tapes. Well, fast forward some 15 years and I don't have a tape deck anymore and the very limited listening that I do to cassettes is in my car. No more cassette decks for me

Regards...

I find a Yamaha HD1500 hard disc recorder/CD burner does everything cassette did in a similar sized package, at lower relative cost, with almost unlimited recording time if required.

For ultimate quality, I use Studer reel-to-reel.

However, I don't have a sentimental attachment to cassette as some people do - I understand that attachment however, as I'm the same about LPs.

I also know people with big cassette collections (Deadheads and such) who still need cassette machines.

About 3 months ago I gave all my cassette's away! (about 130 I guess)

Don't miss 'em.
I still have this very heavy and good Akai cassette-deck though. It's easily >25 years old, but still going strong!

(it was one of the top-models at that time. Got in from my brother in law, in the early 90's, when I still used cassettes)

cheers,
Alco

That is a seriously fine bit of kit GML.
Years ago I used to occasionally operate a Tascam 112,
which was used in a format transfer area at the BBC TV Centre in London.

GML,

Great minds etc.. Here is a thread I started recently. Enjoying the joys of my little Nak. Did not go for anything as expensive as the Dragon, but for a hundred and odd quid, I am getting good replay of old tapes very cheaply.

Regards

Nic

I got a nak dragon, and a Studer/Revox too. Lovely things

Got a three head, dual capstan, variable bias and "calibratable" level meters (no less) .. Marantx SD-60. Doesn't get used much.

...but with a "metal" tape in it and all the dolby stuff turned off, switching between the CD5x and a recording of it, the difference is indeed remarkably small (the tape puts out more mid range volume and loses some detail of things like fret noise). Cetainly sounds better than the worn-thin LPs some of the tapes were recorded from!

However, happily I CAN hear the difference and would in any case need a naim CDP to make decent enough recordings!

and aint it a pain finding a particular track!!!

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Originally posted by GML:
I hadn't owned a cassette deck for yonks until I bought this one off ebay recently.

Fantastic heavy duty machine.
Worked with that for years.