![]() It has a mechanism that locks the cartridge into place with a great big solenoid. ![]() The player that is the easiest and smoothest on tapes has to be the Craig-Pioneer 3207. I refer to it as the "workhorse" player as it gets used almost every day. I have it hooked up as a component deck and only use it to play 8-tracks. Great treble, nice bass, never has trouble playing any tapes. I was surprised at how nice that Soundesign 4411 AM/FM/8-track player sounded when I got it. Panasonic made some nice solid players but I never felt that they were really the best. People seem to like the Panasonic RS-805 and RS-808. I have a Craig H-261 that sounds nice, the Realistic TR-883 is basically the same player. There is also the Pioneer-Centrex RH-65 that a record/music collectible shop had hooked up that I thought sounded nice. The Pioneer HR-99/100 decks are their most popular and are nice sounding. Superscope (Marantz) TRD-820/830 are great sounding decks (and they look good too, especially the black face one). A friend of mine has a Sony TC-288 that sounds nice. ![]() It was all plastic, looked cheap but sounded alright. I had a Sanyo RD-8400 cassette/8-track player that didn't sound all that bad. There's many good sounding decks out there, many that are not talked about. The Akai CR-83D may be good as well but its not built as solid as the units before it. You have to be careful with the heads in the Akais as there are reports of static and dead channels (especially with the glass head GXR units). The Akai CR-80D (Roberts 808D), CR-81D and CR-82D are good solid decks. You need to be careful with the motors in them though. I like the playback and recording quality of my Wollensak 80.
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