Whats playing on your system today?

Looks like we are the only Audiophool who play with cassette tapes bkeske.
Oh and GK I guess..

I just sorted through my latest haul which included a lot of hard to find jazz and fusion tapes some of which are chrome.

Enjoying them right now.

@uberwaltz

Looks like we are the only Audiophool who play with cassette tapes bkeske.
Oh and GK I guess..

They don’t know what they are missing Uber. After I start playing cassettes, I don’t want to stop for a while.

Different than vinyl, but darn good, and dare I say sometimes better. And always better than a CD to me, although I’m far from a CD ‘hater’.

I saw you just got a cassette haul. 👍🏼

It is my second preference for medium.
And it even has some advantage over vinyl.
Last night I fell asleep with tape playing, no harm no foul as shuts off at end.
You just never know what damage you might do to a stylus in same situation.

And my fully factory spec restored Nakamichi ZX-7 is probably going to give me best replay I am ever likely to get on cassette tape.

And my fully factory spec restored Nakamichi ZX-7 is probably going to give me best replay I am ever likely to get on cassette tape.

@uberwaltz 
I picked up an inexpensive cleaned-up but unrestored Nakamichi CR-1A, which is only 2 head, (but understand they are typically better than most 3 head non-Naks out there), deck. Did that at the same time I dragged my old vinyl and cassettes out of hibernation. Goodness knows where my old Akai deck went.

Anyway, as vinyl, was just ‘checking things out’ and seeing if these old formats would stick. And they are. I’m now actually buying cassettes on Discogs as well and vinyl.

And now have my eyes peeled for a nicer Nak deck, as the CR-1A was pretty cheap, so wouldn’t lose much, and could probably sell it for what I paid. Or, at least have it restored, but not sure how smart that would be vs cost/worth.

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - A Night in Tunisia. Blue Note, reissue/remaster 1989

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