Cassette Players

Hi Vinod,

I have been using Yamaha KXW 421 for 3 years.

This is an excellent machine.Sound reproduction is as good as it can be.

Dubbing is praiseworthy, even at high speed.

Build quality is nice.Comes with a remote.

You can go ahead with KXW 421 or KXW 321.

Aniruddha.

Just to add Technics..BTW looking for a single player or a double..Onkyo performance is way below average...

Thanks for the inputs. Since Onkyo was available with bill/guarantee thought that may be better. This post has changed my mind.
I did hear good mention of Yamaha, technics, pioneer etc. Saw a post in bazee for Technics RS-TR271 for 8k. Any opinions.
Iam visiting US next month - would it be wiser to buy from there. Saw some stuff like TEAC, Pioneer in range 200$
Rgds
Vinod

Yamaha has won several awards for it's TApe decks....shouldn't go wrong there....

http://www-2.cs.cmu..../gdead/taping-guide/

rather old, but gets u some ideas right!

denon,

profx and cinebels sell them as well.

try them out.

manek.

Vinodt
If you are going to the US and plan to but A cassette deck there try to buy a Nakamichi from ebay. If you are lucky you could get yourself a good one in good condition. Nak prices dont drop much but you can try. Nothing beats a Nak, truly. With good quality tapes, the sound is hard to beat.
This is an interesting site for Nakamichi lovers.
Click on NAKs below NEWS and then click on the model no. for info. Oh! and the site connects directly to Nak sales on ebay.
http://www.naks.com/

Jeeves nothing can beat the look of a good quality tape deck to your rack system....

Agreed Sub-Boss..

Honestly I've forgotten what they look like though I have a beautiful sounding Nakamichi Cassette Deck 1. I used to tape OP's cds (Manek OP stands for other people's not Oscar peterson!) on metal tapes using a Marantz Cdp 53 which conveniently has a peak seach function. Using this the player runs thru the cd and then finding the passage with the highest peak keeps playing the passage so that you can adjust the recording level on the cassette deck. Lovely sound and I could hardly tell the difference!
Dont have any of my old cassettes any more and the Nak is in storage.....maybe until cassettes are reborn as good analogue sound to compare with vinyl!!! does anyone think it may?!!!

Guys I have some good BASF, CrO2 tapes at my parents place..bruce springsteen..Billy Joel..Chris de burgh...boney M...aaarghhh gotta get em and listen...


Jeeves I still feel some music is good on tape than Cd's...I feel Cd's are edgy...Do u feel the same. But got to get one bomb of a tape player to enjoy em...

I guess its a question of cd quality. There is a discussion going on about that right now on a another post. I guess well recorded cds will have more dynamics than a well recorded tape and perhaps a well recorded tape will sound better than a badly recorded cd!
Wonder if one can buy high quality prerecorded 'audiophile' cassettes? Prithvi?

jeeves,

I remember buying a few expensive pre-recorded tapes in the good old days from certian labels like decca, D Gramaphone and others which used to be cr/ferrous coated tapes with a bias/eq setting on the tape deck..used to cost twice that of normal tapes.

Vinyl has been revived again...who knows maybe tapes too :-)
I dont know if audiophile tapes are available, maybe not.

But one of the things I am certainly going to do is try and restore a spool tape deck....those really gave excellent sound.

manek.

I see many spool decks are in sold in bangalore at throw away prices who feel they are too borin....check out Freeads..I have personally seen many private ads 6 months ago....mostly doctors are selling em...any thing to do with their profession???

spools boring ? they were fidgety but never boring....!

Some of the finest musical performances have been recorded on spools......

Hi Manek it's boring for the guys who sold em...good for audiophiles..

If you can get a Revox or Tandberg...dont think...pick it up. And if you dont want it, pl call me. They were just fabulous.
Sub Boss, now these would look beautiful on the racks!

Another link for FAQs on Naks and prices of models.

http://www.sonicsense.com/nakfaq42.htm