do you need to tweak a tape deck???

My God, I've owned my Nak CR-7 for 12 yrs and all this time it has sat on its stock feet, no tweaks, on the MDF shelf of my Salamander rack. The tapes I make for my car or even--I am loath to confess--to play back during dinner parties on my big rig!!!--sound "just like CDs," for what that's worth. Could I get LP-like sound by putting the deck on cones, points, or pods? It never occurred to me. I felt it was too "low-fi" to tweak. Am I a snob?

Yeah, Bluenose, the CR-7 is a superb tape deck. Tape playback is almost identical to CD, but not to LP. For your car, you cannot tell the diff between tapes and CDs. I also own the Nak Dragon and the CR-7 is just as good for a lot less money (at least when they were both new; i think they both command about the same price on the used market today, ~$750). I have done multiple "battle of the tape decks" recordings and cannot tell any difference or improvement between the Dragon recordings (with totally adjustable bias and azimuth for every tape) and the CR-7 recordings. I guess I should put them both on pods or cones and then judge again.