Cassette decks. How good can it get?


I know some guys are going to just want to say a bunch of negative stuff about tape decks and tell me how bad they sound.  There is a lot of music that comes out on tape only (you usually get download too) so I have been acquiring quite a stack of cassettes.  I have a couple of Nakamichi decks BX100 and BX300. The 300 is not working and was thinking of trying to repair.  I am wondering how good of sound you can get out of cassette?  Has anyone taken the leap up to something like the much more expensive Nakamichis or other brands even.  I enjoy the sound. Mainly it's the background noise more than anything but even that is somewhat tolerable.  

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@wolfie62 

@wolfie62 

Wow that's a once in a life-time gambit! Good for you.  Fortunately, my darling wife is a music fan and has "golden ears".... no really.  So, I get some grief if I purchase some crap.  I don't buy crap.  It's a private joke between us......................

Go figure.

Regards,

barts

Back in the day I had a cassette machine, kinda crappy really, but it looked nice and I would record songs from FM radio instead of buying the album.  Then I got my first Teac rtr and that was the end of the cassette almost.  Bought a dbx compander for the Teac and wow what an improvement.  So I tried it on the cassette and it really made a huge difference.  No, not enough so that it came close to the Teac, but good enough for casual playback. 

OP,
dbx equipment can be found on eBay almost all the time, heartily recommended.

Regards,

barts

@wolfie62 

That's about 10 times as many dbx discs as I had, gave them to a friend a while back.  I remember one was "HEART" and another was DeBussy...yes they did sound phenomenal!

Regards,

barts