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.
A high quality cassette deck will give you the best sound when recording onto CD.
Panasonic RQ-SW48VK Portable Cassette Player is great protable deck for your everyday uses.
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.
Any standard 3.5mm headphones will work just fine with a portable deck.
Unfortunately, car stero cassette decks can only play back tapes.
It is there for use in the final stage of assembly and testing to adjust the height of the cassette playback head to ensure proper track tracking by the head.
Remove the deck from its case or just lift open the top. Lift the tape out of the machine without twisting it. It is best to use white cotton gloves to keep from touching the tape with your fingers. Ease the cassette and the tape out of the deck slowly. The machines dust cover door will try to close on the tape during this step, keep it open or it will close on the tape. Then hold the cassette up on end and using your fingers at the bottom of the cassette turn the reel on top slowly to retract the tape back into the cassette. If the cassette has a metal door, prop it open.
you can use the Coby CA-747 Dual Position CD/MD/MP3 Cassette Adapter to play your CD's thru your tape deck
Assuming that mixer is a "sound mixer" and not the thing with beaters, yes. Otherwise, just break out your old cassette deck.
The best deck is what you like and how you use it, there is no best deck just like water puts out fire and so on there is always a meta-deck that will always beat another meta-deck.
There are only two tapes, standard and mini, which are only used in answering machines and the like.
Many people may think adding a cassette deck to their home theater is a waste of time or money. This may be the case for people that have invested in updated technology, however, for those sitting on a goldmine of tapes from the 1980’s and early 1990’s, adding a cassette deck to the home theater may not be a bad idea. While compact disc technology is dominating the market right now, making cassette tapes all but obsolete, many people still have large collections and want to put them to use. A cassette deck can be easily wired into the speaker system of your entertainment center, allowing your old music collection to be heard in beautiful surround sound. The choice, though, is what type of cassette deck to add to your home theater system. Not any old cassette player will do, you’ll need to find one that is able to be wired into a speaker system. These can easily be found on the internet and at this point will not cost very much at all. It’s a very inexpensive way to bring back the classic music you know and love. There are actually quite a few different devices out there that can be used for many different purposes. Single-deck cassette players are widely used for the home theater system, because they simply play cassettes, and that’s pretty much it. These are also at the low end of the price scale. Dual-deck cassette players offer a little more functionally, such as the ability to record. These are great additions to any home theater, because of the recording capability and the almost always built in equalizers and sound adjustments. Many of the single deck cassette players do not have this functionality. Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you’re going to save a ton of money by using antiquated technology. The truth is, some of these cassette players can be just as expensive as their CD-playing counterparts. Do your due diligence and research online to find the best price. Some online sites offer dual-deck cassette players for as little as $100. Either way, you’ll be sure to spice up your home theater by adding a cassette deck and the ability to relive your past through your music collection.
Should be 4 small holes on either side of the deck. You can buy a tool, or use a coat hanger. Insert the tool into the holes, this pushes the clips in, then slide the deck out. Lots of pictures of this if you google it.