I only have a few older OG and a few newer tapes and bought a TEAK V-7000 off eBay. Sound fine to me, but I have no idea about either tell-tale signs of issues, or if any regular maintenance is required, say degaussing heads. I also remember some special cleaning tapes. Thanks for any wisdom.
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.