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Top 10 vintage cassette decks

Howdy folks!

Would like to add an excellent vintage cassette deck to my setup. Luxman PD444  and Victor TT-101 make up my vintage vinyl setup. It would be cool to include a badass old timer cassette deck don't ya think. Also researching 70's, 80's R2R's. There's another thread on that one. Anyway, I appreciate your knowledge and experience with a killer top ten vintage cassette deck. Bam!

knollbrent
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tomic601
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Nak, Revox or Tandberg….but the Tand not all that reliable ( my opinion based on selling and servicing hundreds ….i know there are unicorns…. but let’s face it, NAK and Revox, the aint… Sonics on all 3 excellent. You got great advice on budgeting for a great tape tech to go thru your purchase.

Have fun, I have a 2 head Nak in the garage and greatly enjoy listening to tapes in made in the 70’s…. i guess, i am ancient…

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holmz
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Would like to add an excellent vintage cassette deck to my setup. Luxman PD444  and Victor TT-101 make up my vintage vinyl setup. It would be cool to include a badass old timer cassette deck don't ya think

Even the famous Swiss cassette recorder company moved onto digital.
Mostly they were reel-to reel rather than cassette.

Have you considered just digitising the vinyl?

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clearthinker
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Gotta be Nakamichi.   But any left will need a full service before use.   It still won't sound nearly as good as a decent record player though.

+1 @holmz    A badass B Series Revox reel to reel running 1/4 inch tape at 7.5 ips will sound an awful lot better.

whipsaw
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I owned a Nakamichi 600, and it was exceptionally well-designed. Not the highest performance of the Nak line, but a beautiful piece of gear.

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