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 Santoro Gorjuss London playing cards. Cute and a bit expensive for what it is ($15 in my case), this deck features different full-color artworks for different cards. It's probably the cheapest way to collect more than 50 different Santoro artworks, especially when you don't care about their rubber stamps. I think there is at least one more version with some different artworks. I'll probably get that as well if I can find it around the same price.

Technics M33. Built like a tank. After 40 years since its release in 1979, it's still going strong. It just needs to be calibrated to ensure a flat frequency response in the region I care about (at least mid-range). And it does have lots of potentiometers inside for fine adjustments: playback/record level, bias, and EQ, plus fluorescent meter levels (0dB and -20dB). It also has an output-level knob, which is great for headphone playback (believe it or not, lots of decks from back then do not have the output-level knob). For me, the biggest shame is that the keyboard-style buttons are made of plastic. Technics M33 (Grado headphones here  if you haven't noticed. SR80 to be specific) I mainly use it for playback tapes in my workplace. Before this, I have been using the Technics M224, which uses needle VU meters (beautiful!). It does not have an output-level knob though, so I had to use an eternal knob. Technics M224 The tapes are recorded with my Yamaha KX-650 deck in my apartment...