First listen to cassette for donkey's years

[The Barbarian]

A 'Dragon' looks like a toy compared to a '3004'

[Yomanze]

There was a Nakamichi Dragon at Scalford in 2012 that sounded better than any of the CD players that were offered up. It could do cymbals properly for one. The real problem is that the tapes themselves degrade over time. I gave all my tapes and tape decks away years ago and replaced with CD. I still regret it a bit, purely from the nostalgia point of view.

Ah cymbals, readily messed up by oversampling / upsampling and digital filters...