Cassettes still rock!

Some very varied responses and opinions so far.

Now not wishing to be a snob here at all just injecting a little bit of reality.

I did say very early on that one needs to hear a great tape on a GREAT player to get a handle on this.

So far not really heard of anybody mentioning the usage of a great player just good or adequate ones.

There is a reason that fully restored  Nakamichi ZX7/9 and Dragons are pushing nearly 2k.
Sorry to hurt anybodies feelings but NO Akai deck even comes close, I have tried a lot of them in my system and they are definitely vanilla!

It is like comparing an Ortofon 2m Red to an Ortofon Black Cadenza. You gets what you pay for.

I guess by that definition my humble Sony Professional portable cassette player is a great machine. Hooray! 🤗

If you have a Nak deck that is working you have the best of the day.  We did A-B tests...pretty hard to do and never really perfect, but we just played the record and the tape simultaneously and switched between preamp functions...best we could do.

Anyway, the only difference we could hear between the Nak 1000 and the best vinyl playing stuff of the day-probably Linn Sondek, but I forget, was a slight "hollow" sound from the tape deck.  Otherwise, identical using Audio Research/Magneplanars from the mid-1970's.

I still have tapes like many of you, but my 2007 car has a CD player and the '66 Vette, well, music is not the first sound you want to hear in a C2 anyway, so...

Cheers! 

LP revival, now cassettes?  Is the zombie apocalypse upon us?

Actually I am pretty sure that yes the zombie apocalypse IS upon us!

And Richopp…… could not afford the C2 but my C3 convertible only has a single speaker AM radio in it that I think works, as you say who listens to music with the top down in a classic Vette.....