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In Reply to: What is the worst line of cassette decks made from a large manufacturer??? posted by mikerussell@hughes.net on September 15, 2007 at 22:02:48:
In addition to what has been said....
I've not had any of them, but from what I see on eBay Germany (And I follow many many auctions), the worst big brand seems to be philips.
Sadly to me, as I have always been somehow an enthusiast of this company.
Philips is large, has had a large catalog yet there isn't any deck that can compete in the best 50. Some of their best decks are poorly paid, the only possible exception being the FC-950 (later 3 head model), but mostly by its aesthetics .
Marantz could be included in this list, as it only has one or two models (even the SD-930 with autoazimuth is not much valued).
Onkyo: this brand has been associated with good hi-fi from Japan (at least, here in europe). However, in cassette decks is a minor and marginal player that made no bad nor exceptional decks. It's only exception can be the 120 eur valuated TA-6711 with dolby S. I had a TA-2570 plenty of features but modest sonically, and a entry model TA-6110 (or so) that performed quite well for its prince range.
There are also some european brands, telefunken, saba, and grundig that have made a lot of decks with limited sound quality and poorly engineered but with good final construction. Exceptions are possibly Grundig CF-5500 and TElefunken RC-200 and RC-300.
Most of the big market players have had plenty of cheap models . So probably to finsih the answer to this question, I would go back to those brands NOT having cheap and junk deck on its catalog... REVOX, NAKAMICHI, TANDBERG, TASCAM(teac), ASC any other? All the others have cheap designs and can be more or less included
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