Vintage Cassettes: Direct Drive, 3 Heads: Sendust

IMHO, I would take the HK CD491 any day over the NAD, IF the HK is working properly and in good shape.

I was very fortunate in that when I closed one of my stores I took all of the blank tape we sold with me.

I have cases of TDK, Maxell, Fuji, BASF, Triad, Sony that will probably last me a lifetime. Not sure if any of the majors sell high quality tape anymore. I'm sure you can find some on E-Bay.

Ivan.

The JVC, TD-V711 was direct drive. A belt drives the second capstan. Heads are Amorphous for Record and Sen Alloy for Playback. All in all a nice JVC from 1989. I owned one for a while.

Les, thanks, that does begin to jog my memory ;)

Cleaning house and have an older Nakamichi LX-5 sitting in a closet if anyone is interested. I'm the second owner. Had it serviced upon purchase; appears to play/record fine. I'm just not into cassettes anymore. Probably grades as a 7/10 due to age and cosmetic condition. If interested, let me know; I'll entertain any offers. Will drop off my sack of assorted 60+ cassettes at Goodwill in the next couple of weeks.

I owned a slew of Technics cassette decks, culminating with the near top-end RS-M234X, which sounded great and had dbx, Dolby C and Dolby B noise reduction systems. After my brother destroyed it, I bought a Sony TC-K570 which is a 3-head, 3 motor design with Dolby HX Pro, Dolby C and Dolby B. I wish my old Technics decks could have sounded so good.