Posted by lapnect 4 days ago
The best cassette deck ever was the Revox B215, direct drive, all about performance, no nonsense, flawless for what it was designed to do.
Solution was simple : put a blank tape then record, play, record, play short chunks of tape in order to clean the record/play connections in the mechanism. Problem solved.
I haven't listened to a cassette in at least a decade.
I wonder what I should do with them when I retire and sell my house in two years.
Common' ... You can find one for $500. Take, say, a Technics 1200 25 years anniversary, gold plated, turntable and that's 5-digits territory by now.
Three digits is still okay if you're a enthusiast in that kind of thing.