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Anyone into cassettes?

I recently picked up a Nakamichi BX300 for a couple of bills on Ebay and after replacing the idler tire and the two belts, this baby sounds better that any cassette deck I've owned previsouly, and I have been playing pre-recorded tapes for the past week in analog heaven. Finally a deck that sounds amazing on Dolby B with commercial tapes.

I also won a Dragon for a good price on auction and will send this out for restoration as needed.

Anyone else into cassettes as an alternative form of analog heaven? Some of those mid to late 80s recordings really have wonderful punch and extension.
stevecham
normansizemore
601 posts
 
Oregonpapa,

Never thought of trying thrift stores.  I do find some NOS on ebay.  I just wish that maxell and TDK would return to tape manufacturing.  Even for reel to reel, I personally always found maxell to be the best in my machines, even when compared to many 'plus 6' professional tapes.

N. 
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swampwalker
5,138 posts
 
Any of you cassette guys; send me pm if you are interested in NOS or used tapes or hardware. 
ebm
9,311 posts
 
25 yrs ago maybe.
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geoffkait
23,365 posts
 
I lucked out and found a few RCA Living Stereo and Mercury Living Presence on cassette. They're sublime.

normansizemore
601 posts
 
Anyone have any of the Advent brand chrome cassettes? I'm not talking about the blank ones, Advent has a series of classical and jazz records out on cassette and they were excellent.

I also loved their 'pain the neck' to operate but bullet proof cassette decks, the ones with the commercial 3m transports (201 & 201A).

I have several and they still sound excellent, though my likewise ancient Nak dual tracer is a bit sweeter.

I did find a source for new chrome cassettes a few years back. It's the BASF formula and very good.  I can look it up if anyone is interested.

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