Actually, with the infancy resurgence (there are musicians releasing content on cassette, if you can believe it), a fully functional restored deck can fetch a fair amount of money. And actually the higher end ones sound pretty decent, depending how the recording was made.
If just doing payback you’ll want to know what tape formulation and what if any noise reduction was applied to have the capability to set bias, EQ, and NR to appropriate/matching settings.
If you are going to record, you will want a 3-head deck to monitor what is being recorded real time.
Good cassette player?
I FINALLY found a box of tapes that I lost about 10 years ago. Tons of late night college radio I recorded in the early 90s.
I have no idea whats going on with cassette players. Can anyone recommend one which has a decent noise floor and good output for sampling? (XLR? Toslink?) Time to digitize these and post online :)
thanks in advance!