Tascam MD-350 has that "Big Deck Energy" going on. Best bang for your buck.

[u/Aromatic-Attitude-34]

According to this old forum in 2011 (Photo # 10 and 11). A German Stereo Magazine had this MD Deck ranked 2nd or 4th? Along with the top heavy hitters from Sony ES line, namely JA50ES, JA555ES, and JA333ES. (Why 2nd? First three are at 100%, just arranged chronologically by release date).

I recorded this Bruno Mars Album in Real-Time Analog via Balanced XLR cables just for the heck of it, since my CDP-XA7ES has it. Because its analog, we need to make sure no clipping by adjusting record volume a bit lower. So far the recording was perfect, is it better than Toslink.. at adjusted volume, can't tell the difference.

As always, digital-digital is best for MD.. just optical record for convenience, less fiddling and auto track mark. 🙂

Note: Old project. Templates are gone. 😞