TEAC was what my last deck was. I bought it in the 80's and it lived through some heavy use from me. I sold it some years back to a friend with all my cassettes. The deck had the built in DBX noise reduction, any one remember or hear of that? Good idea but if you used it the tape wouldn't sound right on any other deck. I experimented with it but didn't use it much. So DBX became one of those ideas that didn't last long.