To really start off the "Best of" list, here's one of my favorites, one of the coolest designs ever, IMHO: The Onkyo TA-RW9090, a double tray-loading deck.
(There really should have been a dual-well version of Nak's RX505.) Showing 1 - 10 in 10 results RANKING LIST SORT BY SCORES TOP Choice 1 Technics RS-TR210 Stereo Double Dual Cassette Tape Deck Player Recorder Playback View on Amazon SCORE 10.0 AI Score AI Score is a ranking system developed by our team of experts. It's as much about feature wonders, the most mechanically solid units, and the decks that gave the best compromise between functionality and sound. This isn't meant to be about the best possible audio quality alone. Buy PyleUsa Dual Stereo Cassette Tape Deck-Clear Audio Double Player Recorder System w/ MP3 Music Converter, RCA for Recording, Dubbing, USB, Retro Design - for Standard/CrO2 Tapes, Home Use - PT659DU. There were also decks from Pioneer with some digital stuff that I don't understand (the latter falls into my "lost years", unfortunately). Not only the ubiquitous cheap dual-quick-reverse record-for-hours-without-interruptions or copy-both-sides-in-one-go units (with w&f through the roof and azimuth silently drifitng away), but there were also units that acted as two completely separate decks, even dual three-head units (IIRC), decent Yamahas with Play Trim, Sonys loaded with features, and I seem to remember Aiwa even made a deck with a three-head dual-capstan on one side. (Or my ears have gone bad, which is completely possible.)Īnd there were some very nice designs. Maybe the double decks weren't that bad, after all. The Pioneer, however, amazed me when I made a normal-speed copy of an old 80s SA of mine (Pink Floyd's "Final Cut") onto a lowly Sony HF, and even a high-speed copy wasn't horrible. The Onkyo, in addition, has some nasty hum in one part, which I probably won't care to look after. Shame on me.)īoth are nothing to write home about, and in no way contenders for a "Best of" list. (Yes, that's a stack of minidiscs on top. Recently, the first two dual-well decks found their way to my home: An Onkyo K-W606, which came with a "Separate Collection 275" system I purchased recently, and a good-condition Pioneer CT-W205R that I got for little money from someone on the net (and which I intend to give to my Mom to replace her 30 y old Toshiba deck that has died). And the TOTL dual-wells were hard to beat at that. OTOH, I've alway been a sucker for lots of features and buttons and knobs and lights and whathaveyou on the front of audio gear. Some background: Like many (wannabe) cognoscenti, I always refrained from dual-well decks, because they were considered inferior, sound- and reliability-wise. Even more so because the (otherwise really nice) site doesn't seem to list dual-well decks at all.
I know this subject has been discussed sporadically in this forum, but it would be nice to have them all in one place, IMHO. The dual cassette deck wells are driven by the same motor, which is incorporated in the cassette deck assembly mounted behind the tape deck section of the. So I thought I might open another "Best of" discussion. Okay, we already have a "Best of Three-Head" and a "Best of Two-Head Decks" thread here.
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