Cassette lovers; why?
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Which is exactly what I do.
BTW, my interest in R2R and cassette goes back to possibly the late 1960s, and cassette in particular from about 1973 when Dad bought me the Sanyo M2000 mono cassette player. Back then I would send off for brochures from Sony/TEAC/TDK etc - it fuelled my imagination and fascination with the format. That said, there is an amount low level standardisational (spelling?) chaos regarding tape machines, not surprising when we think about it as tape technologies evolved.
I still have my father's Sanyo M2000 and a few brochures, although I wish I had kept them all.
BTW, my interest in R2R and cassette goes back to possibly the late 1960s, and cassette in particular from about 1973 when Dad bought me the Sanyo M2000 mono cassette player. Back then I would send off for brochures from Sony/TEAC/TDK etc - it fuelled my imagination and fascination with the format. That said, there is an amount low level standardisational (spelling?) chaos regarding tape machines, not surprising when we think about it as tape technologies evolved.
I still have my father's Sanyo M2000 and a few brochures, although I wish I had kept them all.
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I went R2R first as a result of working radio from 1973 - 1978. Had to have something with 10" reels and that something at the time was a Pioneer RT-1011, the least expensive of that line. After all, I was making $80/week plus all the records I could eat and had to fund an MGB daily driver. That Pioneer was stolen (probably by the movers) when we moved down to work in Alabama, which led to my first cassette deck, a low - mid range Pioneer. Can't recall which one but it had piano key controls, not relays/solenoids, so not overly expensive. When TVA moved me back to Chattanooga, a friend in Decatur bought my entire system, which led to a new system with a Nakamichi BX-1. Excellent deck, better than the rest of the system. After that, I acquired a Tascam 133 for the A/V production business but dropped cassette and went back to reels (or no tape at all) from the mid-90s to 2017, when I got this deck.
If I remember well, Philips let the format free as long as the other companies didn't made any alterations. Of course the limits between alteration and improvement are quite vogue. And definitely there was a huge improvement through the years following.
I have some "lower" TDK Ds and Sony HFs and Denon DX1s and Fuji DRs recorded back in the '80s that my parents played them back maybe a thousand times each and still sound like they were recorded yesterday.
I have some "lower" TDK Ds and Sony HFs and Denon DX1s and Fuji DRs recorded back in the '80s that my parents played them back maybe a thousand times each and still sound like they were recorded yesterday.