OK: Bubble popping time, coz none of you guys seem old enough to remember what was important "back in the day" - This deck has no Dolby B/C/HxPro/S noise reduction, so your old Dolby B encoded commercial tapes aren't going to sound great, and your Dolby C mixtapes recorded on a decent home deck will have way too much high end and a much higher noise floor than they originally did.
There are millions of good tape decks with line level outputs lying around in basements and stereo cabinets all across the USA and Europe. Borrow one or buy one for $20 at a garage sale. Hook it to your computer's line level audio input and you're done. No need to waste money and effort reinventing the wheel.
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OK: Bubble popping time, coz none of you guys seem old enough to remember what was important "back in the day" - This deck has no Dolby B/C/HxPro/S noise reduction, so your old Dolby B encoded commercial tapes aren't going to sound great, and your Dolby C mixtapes recorded on a decent home deck will have way too much high end and a much higher noise floor than they originally did.
There are millions of good tape decks with line level outputs lying around in basements and stereo cabinets all across the USA and Europe. Borrow one or buy one for $20 at a garage sale. Hook it to your computer's line level audio input and you're done. No need to waste money and effort reinventing the wheel.