“Bics at the ready? Here we spool.”
“Ready, Steady, Tangle.” 
I have fond memories of the cassette format. I will continue to view them through rose-tinted spectacles. Not going back there, oh no.
Edit: the decks I owned…
Akai CS-M01
Sony TC-FX4
Aiwa ADF-301
You need to own a Nakamichi at some point in your life.
RX-505, Dragon or ZXL1000 Special Edition.
Cassette decks excited me as a teenager. I lusted after many a model.
Source-wise these days, I have eyes only for turntables.
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Didn’t Sony (?) produce one a few years ago? It was to be the last one they produced and, from what I can remember, threw all their previous years of knowledge at it. Haven’t a clue what model it was but it was supposed to be good
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Beaten with the ugly stick
My first cassette deck.
This was my first tape deck, it was very good, miss it and wish I still had it.
£15 from the second hand shop
Took my denon out yesterday to go into storage. And dumped a lot of cassettes although kept a few. Probably only worth 10 quid
my Aiwa first of a few, bought with my staff discount from working at Lasky
might have a peek in the loft, it could still be there
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Why?
Why would anyone want a casette deck?
Apart from recording all your old bootlegs to CDR?
Next Up, 8 Track players?
To irritate @edd9000 
Better still!
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I had a Denon and a Yamaha before it but my pursuit of the best possible performance from my happy hardcore rave tapes saw me work several weeks in an industrial laundry to buy a TEAC V-6030S. It will forever hold the record for most controls on a single device that I’ve owned.
I have no nostalgia for cassette. It was shit. Spunking a fortune on it made it fractionally less shit but the polish to turd ratio hits a level where you’re looking for a micron of crap in a Glade factory.
Nah- you wait until the tapeheads find out the notional bandwidth of D-VHS…
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