best cassette decks?
Best cassette decks?
Landon Powell
Ryder Flores
1980s Nak
Christian James
Kevin Bennett
my thoughts too, looking at a Nakamichi BX125E
Austin Anderson
2nd Gen Prelude, Hands down.
Grayson Phillips
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Jayden Sullivan
>Only playing 1 tape
Parker Jackson
youtube.com
Is digital processing worth its salt? Sounds better than Dolby B.
Jordan Wood
Gabriel Torres
Dragon
Dominic Taylor
Aaron Phillips
80s Naks; Personal recs: Tri Tracer, BX- Line, RX- Line, Dragon
Aiwa XK-005/7/9,
The Sony deck Techmoan uses.
All I can think of right now.
Ethan Brown
Walkmans are better
Charles Sullivan
THEY SOUND LIKE SHIT
Elijah Evans
Wrong. Professional unit like pictured, as well As a similar Marantz (again, Techmoan covered these), have really decent sound output. Wouldn't use one as a main deck like... forever, but if you're short on space or come across one there's no reason to not get one.
Caleb Nguyen
redpill me on pro walkmans
Mason Garcia
So aesthetic
Gabriel Evans
>redpill
i don't know what that means to "redpill" you sorry, I see it everywhere but don't get it in context of explaining something.
Pro Walkmans are dope, but honestly wouldn't specifically buy one unless you had:
- limited space
- absolute total interest/investment in using it all the time
- probably something else
I only suggest against buying it if you don't have a deck because you can probably find a solid, proper deck for the same price as a nice, well functioning Pro Walkman/Marantz Pro, for a similar or close price. And the deck will be easier to power and use IMO.
The only downside being that you need space and all that. So I also suppose if your usecase for tapes is listening with headphones, then a pro walkman/marantz might be a better option.
If you're digitizing tapes, get a proper deck though. Hands down.
Cooper Mitchell
>i don't know what that means to "redpill" you sorry
watch the matrix
Joseph Parker
Nice try.
Evan Carter
I'm hard! What vehicle is that?
Joshua Taylor
RX-7 according to google
Joshua Watson
A E S T H E T I C S
Why can't things look nice anymore?
Cameron Thomas
Pretty sure that's the first gen RX-7 to be exact.
Jaxson Barnes
Its from an fb, correct. The red leather interior is a dead giveaway.
Jaxon Bell
My new dream car, love that '80s aesthetic.
Xavier Collins
Because nothing is allowed to have style or functionality, everything has to be some stupid ultra minimalist box and functions be buried under 50 menus.
The way I see it is old Hi-FI had it's own style between manufacturers and every function was accessible on its front, if you didn't see a function you didn't have it
Caleb Sullivan
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Jacob Garcia
>tfw you gave away hundreds of tapes in the early '90s after your CD collection outgrew it
Nicholas Rivera
this
Dylan Moore
That orange memo button
Hnnng
Jackson Peterson
>primitive digital noise reduction
Absolutely degenerate. The best sound is achieved by putting it through the fewest stages and keeping it pure analog; noise even enhances perceived quality via dithering.
Zachary Watson
Fuck yes. Not just Walkmans, but literary Sony professional portable ones.
They are one of the best things you can use for cassette playback.
Jaxon Cook
holy hell that thing has everything, full size mic inputs, fucking mono VU's, fine-tuned mic levels...
that's more of a portable studio recorder than a walkman
Brayden Baker
That is because it is a portable recorder.
Grayson Allen
Yeah but you might as well just get a DAT recorder then.
>don't want to buy an old deprecated digital tape format.
Of course you don't, it's stupid. Buy a sound devices MixPre-3. It's a pretty solid PMP accidentally.
The problem with portable tape machines is that they don't have dolby-S. Rare expensive decks do have dolby-S. DATs and MiniDisk don't have analog tape his problems.
DAT and MiniDisk are superior, cheaper (for quality), and more "hey mom look how unique I am".
Landon Gray
You know it's 2018 right
Ayden Jones
Yeah of the cassette.
Robert Miller
have you heard of bandcamp
Isaac White
Thoughts on the Sony La Scala TC-S1 Cassette Deck ?
Easton Parker
looks cool
Oliver Harris
Dual capstan/three head decks that don't depend on the cassette's pressure pad are the best there is, but it's going to cost you. These aren't something you can easily find at a thrift store.
Isaac Phillips
is a nakamichi bx125e a good deck