I don’t think I’ve heard one deliberately.
The old codecs might sound ok at high bitrates. Lossless is often only 600-odd, so it might work. Won’t be as good as 320 MP3, I’m sure.
In my case I got it in 2005 or so for £130, and effectively used it as a seriously good standard rate A-D.
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I used to own a posh MD player, the DAC section was very good 
looks like someone recycled an old record storage box and stuck a ham radio in it 
Prototype Steepletone.
Excellent sound quality demo here…
Not at all a shonky piece of shite:
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It’s happening everywhere -
Seriously? £189? I’ve got one of those somewhere. Must dig out my Nak and cassettes when I get home.
I moved from a WM D9 to a Sony DAT for gig recording but never really got results I was happy with from the DAT so went back to the Walkman. The M-Audio Microtrack was the first digital recorder I was happy with. Not having to play the tape or DAT to the HDD before tracking and FLACing was a marvellous thing.
I used to do the same with my ‘Waltham’ 
I remember buying a Nakamichi BX300, sometime after DCC came out, to make some kind of point. I’m not sure I ever played more than half a dozen cassettes on it. It was a stupid idea and I sold it for fuck all a few years later when nobody wanted one.
Pffft !
I have an original Nak 1000 tri tracer kicking around with the feely front.
Jezus, this is even worse than there r2r tardery.
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I am not a lover of compact cassette, but you have to admire some of the mechanical stuff that has been produced. And at least there is more than 1960/70s MoR shite on the format.