Interesting to read discussions of these now elderly decks. I have 2 Denons, a DRM07 and a DRM710. The older one actually lives under the bed for playing through headphones but has not been used since the foam pads on the old Sennheiser 'phones turned to dust. The 710 still lives with the rest of the hifi but is not used too much these days. It had a lot of use in the past though as I tended to record all my vinyl and just listen to it on cassette. Perhaps I'm expecting too much but most of those tapes don't play as well now as they did when I recorded them. The easy answer to this has been to just buy CDs of the same music. Perhaps I should buy some fresh tapes and have another go. Trouble is, when my old Audiolab A8000 amp died, its replacement came with no RIAA equalised phono input, so I can't currently play vinyl