Cassettes still rock!


Played Dire Straits debut album last night - from a Maxell XL 2s cassette recorded from the vinyl over 30 years ago. Best sound I've heard on my system in months. I have the SACD, but doesn't have the organic sound from the tape/vinyl. Dig out your old cassettes! 
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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! 
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.....
I guess by that definition my humble Sony Professional portable cassette player is a great machine. Hooray! 🤗
Will give you a bye on that one GK as you are " off the grid" which changes a lot of things.

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