mcintosh cassette deck??

[vintageboy]

I know they made pretty much anything but why never a cassette deck?

Does anyone know?

 

[c_dk]

No tape decks, Gordon Gow always wanted me to use a Tandberg if he needed a deck in his presentations.

 

[petehall347]

probably wanted to keep a good name for themselves ..cassette decks are /were a bit naff whoever made them ..

 

[jdurbin1]

naff? hardly...

John

 

[Macs!]

I know they made pretty much anything but why never a cassette deck?

Does anyone know?

Tandberg, Nakamichi and Advent were three brands that were featured at McIntosh dealers where I've done business in the (distant) past.

I've owned a Nak 1000 and the classic Advent 201 deck, and have gotten good results from both.

In fact, I have a copy of a no-longer-in-print Barre Phillips ECM recording from the '70s that started life as an LP, played back with a Thorens/SME/Shure V-15 system and recorded onto a metal cassette with a top-quality Sony deck in the '80s.
About ten years ago, I transferred that tape to CD, and about two years ago, ripped that CD to a hard drive, where the recording now resides. It is very listenable - in fact, I doubt most people would ever suspect its humble origin.

 

[Gregory]

Tandberg, Nakamichi and Advent were three brands that were featured at McIntosh dealers where I've done business in the (distant) past.

I've owned a Nak 1000 and the classic Advent 201 deck, and have gotten good results from both.

In fact, I have a copy of a no-longer-in-print Barre Phillips ECM recording from the '70s that started life as an LP, played back with a Thorens/SME/Shure V-15 system and recorded onto a metal cassette with a top-quality Sony deck in the '80s.
About ten years ago, I transferred that tape to CD, and about two years ago, ripped that CD to a hard drive, where the recording now resides. It is very listenable - in fact, I doubt most people would ever suspect its humble origin.

That's a lot of ripping! :yes:


-Gregory

 

[frankxbe]

They probably had their hands full competing with the Japanese onslaught
and correctly figured they had enough irons in the fire . just a guess .

 

[c_dk]

Not a good return on investment,,,same reason they did not market the Grahmn arm or various turntable designs that were presented to them.

 

[CountD]

Not a good return on investment,,,same reason they did not market the Grahmn arm or various turntable designs that were presented to them.

McIntosh was very smart in their business decisions during those years...unlike many, many other companies that I know and got completely washed up. Look what happened to Marantz. It's a shame, but that's the game. Thankfully McIntosh did not offer a bunch of cheese stuff and stopped when they knew it wasn't working.

 

[michaelhigh]

I have a series of St. Louis rock classics on my hard drive that started from LP to cassette recordings, FM to cassette recordings, and RTR to cassette drops. I burnt audio CD's of them and ripped those to hard drive, converted to lossless, and I can barely hear the difference, if at all, between the various sources. YMMV.