I saw a couple of Prince reissue cassettes at a record store over the weekend, it got me in the mood to fire up the RX-505. I have to say pre-recorded tapes from the CD era released on Chrome do sound pretty darn good on this deck. I'm still amazed at what Nakamichi was able to extract out of the format.
I have to wonder how all these new pre-recorded cassettes sound considering the lack of available high quality tape these days. I did get a cassette copy of a new LP I ordered in a bundle earlier this year, I should A/B it with the CD and LP just for kicks.
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