Price Paid:  $314.00 from Audio & Video Mullsj

Summary:
I love tapes for the convinience and relativily good sound and have ca. 200pcs. When i bought my stereo I replaced my faulty Pioneer CT6060 wich in classic style have good mechanics and a giant flywheel. The CT-W606DR does a fine jobb of cleaning up the sound on old tapes (+20 years old) and have nice features for optimizing of recording with BLE XD and Dolby B/C. Before this new tapedeck I used to sample songs to the PC and clean it up with Cool Edit and make AAC and MP3 of them but now they sound perfectly right in realtime!

Strengths:
Digital filtering, features, convinience. Cheap.

Weaknesses:
No remote, no lighting of cassetewell, most plastic.

Similar Products Used:
Pioneer CT-6060

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
Warning: Pioneer tape decks are neither durable nor reliable - I have 2 dead ones including CTW60RS similar to this. I wouldn''t buy another Pioneer product with moving parts.

Strengths:
Worked fine till it died

Weaknesses:
Quit recording on one side.

Similar Products Used:
CTW60RS

Price Paid:  $186.00 from Consumer Direct Ware

Summary:
I bought this tape deck because it had good features like the 20 bit D/A converter and all the nice features one would normally look for in a cassette player. Another factor being that I had bought a Pioneer PDF-1009 CD player so I thought I could use its remote control with the tape deck. To my disappointment, it turned out that the cassette player has a control-in wire which works with Pioneer receiver and is incompatible with Kenwood receiver so had to return it.

Strengths:
Clear sound, good features

Weaknesses:
Can be remote-controlled only with Pioneer receivers!!! Noisy operation.

Similar Products Used:
Sharp.

Price Paid:  $230.00

Summary:
I recently purchased both the Pioneer CT-W606DR and the Sony TC-WA7ESA with the plan of keeping the one I liked best. I expected the more expensive Sony would be the keeper, but to my surprise the Pioneer sounded much better, even with its digital features turned off. Kudos to Crutchfield for a liberal return policy. They will be getting back the Sony soon.

Strengths:
The Pioneer has great sound and convenient features. Its controls are easy to operate. It is considerably less expensive than the Sony TC-WA7ESA.

Weaknesses:
The Pioneer has two motors instead of the Sony's four, and lacks Dolby S. However, its superior sound quality outweighs these differences.

Similar Products Used:
Sony TC-WA7ESA

Price Paid:  $235.00 from Best Buy

Summary:
I am an unabashed Pioneer Pusher and this unit was as good as I could find in this area. freq. response is about as good as it gets and after all It Is A Pioneer.

Strengths:
loads of features excellant fit with all the other pioneer components in my system elite [vsx26tx reciever,cld-d504 laserdisc player and pd-f906 cdplayer]with the new at .great dubbing capabilitiesand plenty of noise reduction features.this unit sounds great on playback and has been trouble free for over 2 years.

Weaknesses:
none

Similar Products Used:
kenwood rack system 670 [junk]