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A Primer on Vintage Cassette Decks: How to Find a Good One
During the heyday of cassette culture, the respected home audio magazine Hi-Fi Stereo Review published one of its occasional overviews of new-model tape decks. The 1988 feature was surrounded by pages and pages of ads for decks and blank tapes from dozens of companies, having arrived when cassette technology was peaking, tape sales were high and many cars still had decent sounding tape-driven stereos. Compact discs, though increasingly popular for home audio systems, had yet to fully infiltrate the sacred driving space. ...
During the heyday of cassette culture, the respected home audio magazine Hi-Fi Stereo Review published one of its occasional overviews of new-model tape decks. Like most audio writing of the time, the Stereo Review story(scroll to page 81 for the full article) is a snooze: dry, technical and penned for obsessive gear-head fellas interested in the science and mathematics of high-fidelity sound reproduction. The deep, well-researched audio shop Fryderyk Danielszyck described the CT-F1000 model as “a high-quality Pioneer cassette deck from the second half of the seventies equipped with many advanced playback and recording functions (including automatic Cr02 tape detector, pitch control, memory stop, MPX filter, tape slack eliminator, full auto stop, buttons controlled by an electromagnet) … As befits one of the outstanding representatives of the “golden age of audio”, this model is also distinguished by remarkable precision of its structure and sound.
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