I have a similar Yamaha cassette deck in my system. I use it on occasion to play cassettes I recorded years ago on various decks I have owned over the years, or to transfer that music to CD and/or music server using a Denon CD recorder, but I do not use it often. Background noise levels have always been the main weakness of cassette sound. Other than that, many cassette source tracks that end up on my music server in rotation with all the rest sound good enough to listen to, but I can usually tell the source when I listen usually due to hiss noise levels.
I do like that I can hear the distinct "flavor" of the sound of the various vintage gear I used to record those tapes over the years when I listen to these tapes on my current rig, which is neat. Most have a distinctive sound, like many vintage recordings recorded on vintage gear does, but as a whole these recordings are very enjoyable, though perhaps more inherently flawed technically.
I do like that I can hear the distinct "flavor" of the sound of the various vintage gear I used to record those tapes over the years when I listen to these tapes on my current rig, which is neat. Most have a distinctive sound, like many vintage recordings recorded on vintage gear does, but as a whole these recordings are very enjoyable, though perhaps more inherently flawed technically.