One thing about cassettes I am finding is they apparently escaped the fate of overly agressive dynamic compression that befell their compact disc bretheren. The cassettes are by and large more dynamic, more musical and highly entertaining compared to their papier mâché sounding bretheren. Imagine, all this on a humble portable cassette player. And this is true even for digitally remastered cassettes.
Dolby NR encoding - did it ever work
What I mean is, if you record something with Dolby NR engaged, the sound should have the high frequencies boosted and the noise floor unaffected during playback without Dolby NR engaged. I had a Kenwood tape deck that would reduce the noise floor during recording, which isn't right. I am considering buying a new, collectible tape player.