Tape Trail

Reel to reel, cassette and other analogue tape formats.

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SONY Pro Walkman cassette player

Posted by geoffkait on September 16, 2020 at 03:58:14:
My current setup is the pro Walkman + vintage SONY MDR-V700 headphones, I spent an entire stimulus check on cassettes recently including a boatload of Grateful Dead soundboard cassettes. I might be the only one here who isolates his cassette player and uses damping on the cassette body. Better safe than sorry. I should add there are quite a few advantages to going battery powered, including but not limited to, avoidance of noise and distortion related to AC power and power supplies, noise and distortion from power cords, speaker cables, interconnects, avoidance of big honking transformers, capacitors, a mile of internal wiring, room treatments, fuses, I could go on...