Price Paid:  $160.00 from Simlim Tower (Singapore)

Summary:
I bought this deck after moving here to Singapore. I needed a cassette deck, even though I don't use it that often. I used to be into cassette tape heavily, when the thing was buy LPs and record them to cassette. This saved the surface of the vinyl records with their finite number of uses.

Anyway, I was looking for a midrange cassette deck with good basic features (ie frequency response, wow & flutter).
I didn't want a double cassette, as I feel you give up sound quality for the second drive. I also don't like auto reverse decks which will loose its head alignment after awhile.

I found this one with good specs and neat front-horizontal load tray. I am very happy with this deck. I don't plan on buying another deck for quite some time.

System:

Carver AVR-100 Receiver
Carver TCM-15CB Power Amp
Carver TCM-25 Power Amp
Carver CT-24v Preamp
Carver C4000 Preamp
Carver CT-7 Preamp
Technics SL-PD888 CD Player
Infinity SM150 Speakers
Bose 901 Series IV Speakers

Strengths:
Front-horizontal tape load transport. 3 motor (for tape loading and tape playing).Output level control, Dolby HX Pro, MPX filter, headphone jack, cd synch.

Weaknesses:
None

Similar Products Used:
Pioneer, Kenwood, Sony, Teac, among others