Did you buy new cassette tapes lately? Show us your musical taste here!

I haven't bought any cassette with a new release because IMHO all them sound bad. Modern tapes like the ones sold by the American cassette company (or something like that) aren't as good as old 90s ones. And the recording is usually worse.
The only (big) ones I've seen released recently are the Star wars - Force awakens and the GOTG soundtrack movie. But there are maybe small companies out there doing things right...
However, I recently bought a set of 130+ cassettes from the 80/90s

 

I bought a ten pack of tapes recently from ebay, only wanted 3 of the ten:

 

Here's the lot I was talking about: http://www.walkman-archive.com/wa/2016/12/a-huge-lot-of-130-cassettes/

Ahh, ok, actual purchases of old tapes. In this lot, actually there are some brand new, sealed tapes too!

 

I forgot to say that I also posted it here: http://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/a-huge-lot-of-130-cassettes

 

I have been given some months ago a bunch of used tapes. That should not be anything remarcable, but these tapes came from the best high-end audio store in Barcelona. Some even came from their customers.
What's special is that there were almost no type I tapes; they are mostly type II with quite a lot of type IV , and most of them have been recorded with high-end equipment, like Nakamichi decks. And they have been stored carefully so they are in excellent condition, almost like new!
There were a bunch of about 60-80 cassettes...

Here it is the shelf where the tapes were resting:


Here are some of the most representative or special. Yes, even a TEAC reel! And all them for free!


That's the bag I took with me to home

Do you want to see how I looked when I went to the store to see that "bunch of cassettes that they were about to throw in the bin, but then they remember about me"?:

Until then I keep picking some randomly to listen what they have into. The old BASF present playing problems due to degradation of the tape, but they seem rare and desirable.
The UX, UX-S, MA and Metal XR are the best ones. They have all been recorded with excellent quality in premium decks. The sound is quite good and enjoyable. I'm discovering new artists every time!

 

Absolutely! I have experienced that with many tapes, especially from this particular lot. I'm actually listening to a SONY MetalXR in my Nak RX505, because it was recorded in a Nak as it clearly states in the very J-card.
However, as it's recorded with Dolby C, it never matches very well so I'm using my JVC NR50 to precisely calibrate the Dolby response to it sounds perfect.

 

Here's a quick photo I've just take:

I love the ability to upload photos directly from my phone...

 

Wow, I never seen a commercial prerecorded cassette with dbx .
I have various equipments for dbx but no prerecorded one. I suggest you a Marantz PMD-340, which has dbx, is portable and compact (not as much as the D6C, though), 3 heads and it's a lot of fun. And it's still cheap these days. Here's mine:

Marantz Deck PMD-430 by walkman archive posted Jan 22, 2017 at 9:26 PM

 

The D6C is a great walkman and one of the best sounding of them all. Congrats on that. And the Super-D6C by DW is awesome.
The Marantz can indeed play metal tapes, of course. It can even record them too.

Marantz Deck PMD-430 03 by walkman archive posted Jan 23, 2017 at 12:34 PM

What makes so special this portable deck is that it's the only one 3-head portable deck ever made. And it sounds truly good!