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Top 10 vintage cassette decks

Howdy folks!

Would like to add an excellent vintage cassette deck to my setup. Luxman PD444  and Victor TT-101 make up my vintage vinyl setup. It would be cool to include a badass old timer cassette deck don't ya think. Also researching 70's, 80's R2R's. There's another thread on that one. Anyway, I appreciate your knowledge and experience with a killer top ten vintage cassette deck. Bam!

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fiesta75
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Nakamichi ZX-9, DR-10 or DR-1 

fiesta75
1,378 posts
 

R2R - Revox/Studer

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chasda
62 posts
 

Harmon Kardon was in the mix back in the day. I have a HK 2000 in a box in my basement. I've been thinking of breaking it out. You may have given me some motivation. 

dwest1023
202 posts
 

Aiwa F990. Most underrated deck ever made. I’ve heard nothing better.

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dekay
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I've owned various decks, but aside from an Akai and an Aiwa (sp?) the others were Nakamichi.

Of the Nak's (250/350/550/600/700ZXE) the 700ZXE was by far the best (think the 250 was payback only as I used it in my car).

This said, I also made extremely good recordings with VHS (3-head) and Sony Betamax decks.

I assume that parts for the Nakamichi's would be more readily available.

 

DeKay

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