I recently bought an old Technics cassette deck, identical to the one I had in the early 90s while on a retro computer hunt. It’s nice but not top of the range,

I recently bought an old Technics cassette deck, identical to the one I had in the early 90s while on a retro computer hunt. It’s nice but not top of the range, but I’ve been blown away by the quality of the first generation recordings onto Type II cassettes. The Type I seem to be as meh as I remember them. TASCAM has just announced the 424, the first new Type II cassette in years. Cobalt, not Chrome Dioxide, which I can only imagine was pretty environmentally unfriendly. https://tascam.com/us/product/424/top https://tascam.com/us/product/424/top