The best brand of a jogging cassette player is the Sony Walkman
Sanyo's are known for their radio reception.
This is depending on the year of the cassette player and the type of cassette player. However even though you get the best cassette player you will still run into the problem of a cassette being eaten.
Ipod is the best.
Honestly, with the change in todays recording environment, I would say the Teac or Sony brand of cassette deck would be the best.
Panasonic RQ-SW48VK Portable Cassette Player is great protable deck for your everyday uses.
Sony's have a great reputation as being reliable.
You can purchase a used CD radio and cassette player from Adorama, Best Buy, Amazon, or eBay. You can buy it for a cheap price from these four places.
The TDK SM-X and Sony UX PRO are the two most widely used cassette brands. Sony appears to be more widely available in recent years than the TDK which dominated the industry in the past.
The brand Tascam is widely regarded as the most professional grade, and industry standard cassette player. Their models come complete with pitch shifting capability, XLR connections, and RCA connections that producers require. In recent years they have begun to manufacture Tape/CD models capable of doing both at studio quality.
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In my opinion, the best cassette deck is made by sony.
The Nakamichi is the best tape deck for any sort of recording.