In the golden age of cassette technology, the early 1990s witnessed a surge in high-performance dual-well decks. Among these, the Pioneer CT-W901R
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He set it on the maple workbench in his basement, the one that still held a jar of nails his father had bought in 1968. The deck was a beast of brushed aluminum and disciplined geometry. Two wells, side-by-side, like the eyes of a patient, intelligent reptile. The buttons weren't the soft-touch plastic of later years, but solid, square paddles of metal that engaged with a thunk that spoke of relays and solenoids and a time when engineers were not afraid of mass. In the golden age of cassette technology, the