Tape Trail

Posted by rotovator (A) on June 24, 2007 at 14:41:59

In Reply to: RE: What are the best cassette deck models from Aiwa, JVC, Onkyo, posted by mikerussell@hughes.net on June 23, 2007 at 18:17:44

I Like this page. It's a hall of fame of japanese hi-fi. Look at the end, there are entries for 5 pages of decks.

http://www.niji.or.jp/home/k-nisi/


I sold my JVC TD-V711, beliving it was overperformed by the TD-V931, and hoping to get one 931 some day (hard difficult, I've seen none on eBay germany so far). I've read great opinions about how good is the 711. Now I don't know Which one is superior. I will probably regret from selling it. The JVC TD-V1010 and V-1050 must be good performers.
The other ones cited (DD-V9 and DD-99) are unkown for me, but also quite old.

From AIWA I have the XK-S9000 which is a great deck (I'll post my impressions against the CR-7 and ZX-7 someday). Toghether with the XK-009, are the best of all of this three brands. Probably the other good aiwas (F-90, AD-6900) are also superior to the other brands at their time.

From ONKYO: I've never read great opinions, nor have I seen any of their models being paid much on eBay. The better model is their lattest TA-6711 with dolby S, usually going over 100 euros on eBay germany. I had the TA-2570 and was a beautiful, feature-loaded deck. Its sound quality was average. Their TA-2060/2070/2090 are, sometimes, well priced on eBay too.