cassettes CAN sound better than vinyl.

Hello Leemurray2007.  I use a program called WavePad to record, de-hiss (Noise Reduction), and equalize music from cassettes and get remarkable results. The same program can also largely reduce clicks and pops from vinyl records. The program has a free version you can try out and use forever if you wish. I did get the paid for version and use it almost daily. Digital music need not be deadly. Enjoy!  I get audio books from thrift stores and digitize them for use on long trips.

Well, I will say that a few years ago I picked up an MCS 3570 tape deck on the cheap at an estate sale, and that when I hooked it up and popped in in my cassette copy of Tracy Chapman’s first album, I was shocked to discover that it sounded on par with my turntable. Granted, my turntable at that time was a Technics SL-1500 running an Audio Technica AT-3600l. Still, having been at least a decade since I’d played a cassette tape, it sounded worlds better than I was expecting.

Oh, and by the by… MC Hammer did indeed release an Addams Family song, “Addams Groove”. It is of course, perfectly dreadful.

Um...no.  (Former owner of Nakamichi 1000 and avid live recorder back in the day.)

The only reason I had a Dragon was to record cassettes for the car, nothing else. I was in the business at the time and got a swell deal on it.

As others have said, live mic to 2-track (or Tri-Mic) on a clean, well aligned, degaussed crystalloy or sendust Nak or JVC or Sony portable recorder certainly made for some enjoyable listening back in the day, and I have fond memories, but how can a knock-off from an LP beat the original, even on RtoR?  And never mind finding compatible playback on random decks without carefully matching head alignment. The Cassette Era SUCKED!  Good MP3 is waaay better if only because of its immunity from playback compatibility, pumping and breathing, dirt, stray fields, etc. Both formats are lossy, but in analog it’s a mess.