Anyone still playing on Cassette decks?


To make my last week short story:
My anesthesia professor gave me some conferences on tapes about 80, I was so curious that I went online right away searching for a decent deck at a good price, but locally I found a guy selling a Yamaha KX-390, he was asking $40, I offered $25 he took it!
I came home all the types were ok, but I start wondering how music tapes will sound trough my harbeth/luxman combo, I remembered that but mistake I ordered a cowboy Junkies album
on amazon, i put it on, an i have been amaze how satisfying tapes could be still, on times where people are looking for HD tracks...
Wondering if any of you will excellent TT and DACs comp based systems, still feel joy playing tapes?

Now i am trying to look for a better deck and studio recorded cassettes in good condition, i want to give a try to the format again, I realized that I enjoying changing formats and sources on my set up.

A good cassette deck advice will be highly appreciated.

Regards to you all.
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Yes indeed, mostly dubbing tapes to cd or directly into my computer made long ago on a Technics cassette deck and then Sony 707 ES deck. Playing them back now on the best of the bunch, a Nakamichi DR-8 unit. Always using good tapes yielded good results many years later. No, not cd level buy enjoyable still. After all it is still about the music. For myself music from "back in the day", when music was the most fun coming from the best groups ever. Of course every one feels the same about their music.

I loved recording music from my LP's to cassette but especially reel to reel. Great music, great gear, at least the best I could afford, most fun ever. Connects you to the music and the equipment. Which is why a love this hobby all the more. Have fun.
Mine is in storage but i have to say that the tapes i made on my Luxman using DBX back in the mid 80's rivaled anything on CD. Yes they sounded awesome and when I go looking for a reel to reel it must have a dbx noise reduction option.