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This is a rare setup. Kind of vintage audio unicorn.
You still have a noticeable noise floor and medium limitations as equalizer, though ("warmer").
99.999% of decks and surviving tapes do sound like dogshit.
Nah, this is wrong. Cassettes don’t sound like dogshit and most vintage decks sound great when properly calibrated.
Modern $20 Chinese portables sound like ass, I’ll give you that.
OK, well, you have a lot more tolerance for tape hiss and compression artifacts and muted highs than I do, the only quiet tapes I’ve heard were big fat studio tapes when I had access to a research studio.
I spent so many years trying to get a decent field recording out of the best portable recording (cassette) decks that I may be a little traumatized. DAT recording was a revelation, even with horribly unreliable decks.