Cassettes still rock!

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Some people are vastly over pricing the Dragons.
Sure it was top knotch but in reality not truly much above a zx7 or zx9 which are likely the best bet in top end Nakamichi ownership for value vs performance.
Still, nothing worthwhile will be a $100 CL buy... lol

Uber that was a Dragon Turntable:-)

Used an old jvc tape,deck for years in my stereo, and records.
once cd hit the market, cassettes were boxed. Still boxed in basement,
Mercyful fate, Kreator, schenker, Hirax, onslaught, motorhead, Raven, tank, spartan warrior, crossfire, bathory, pestilence, trust, satan jokers, Celtic frost, and about 40 others.

 Most were played on my Panasonic rx-c45 little boom box.
 Miss being young! I’m sure we all do!

and no cassettes do not rock.
LP’s and cds’ are better.

but, you keep,rockin your cassettes!....enjoy

I picked up a cheap Akai Cassette deck from fleabay just because it is same vintage look as my Sanyo receiver in second system.
Gave it a good blast inside with Deoxit and played a tape. Not too bad.
Cleaned the heads and demagnetized them while I was at it.
But biggest surprise is recording on it and then playing that back.
I threw in a cheap but brand new TDK D tape and recorded a Brand X album off Qobuz.

I hate to say it as too many Debbie Downers around still but the recorded playback from this el cheapo deck is quite astounding.
Rivalled the original source at least in sq.

For $30 I am pretty pleased with myself!

On my high end system, I get very good sound from my live recordings on a Tandberg 310.  It's the pre-recorded tapes that sound mediocre at best (10 great out of 500).  So, if one desires to use their cassette deck instead of an Alesis Masterlink (CD) or Sugarcube (thumb drive to HD type digital storage) for recording off LPs, fine.  But I will stick to the ease of use and high sound quality of my digital recording devices over cassettes.