![]() That said will they sound as good as some of the earlier Nak models? No, but its a level of subtleties with the sound quality issue. Having owned many of the DR series, over the years and currently owning two of them that have worked flawlessly for years with probably 1000 hour each of playback and record time, they work mechanically as well or better then anything Nak ever made. First of all there is nothing wrong with the DR line of decks. Wow there is a lot of, lets use the word sketchy information floating in this thread. Tapes made on my previous decks sounded a bit dull and the Dolby mistracked. But, their design did not follow through to the heads. It was a shame because it had a unique feature allowing the playback head to change alignment (just like a video tracking control), which was obviously designed to optimize it for tapes made on other machines. So, yes the deck was first rate when playing back its own tapes, but it was less than perfect playing back anything else. If I recall I was told I could purchase a special set of heads which would more ideally match the curves of other machines. My experience was that tapes made on other machines played back incorrectly, which always disappointed me as I'd amassed a large number of cassettes when I bought the Nakamichi. Here's why: Nakamichi used a proprietary frequency response curve on their machines (if I'm wrong about any of this, which was told to me by a dealer, I'm sure others will correct this). As far as your stated purpose, I'm not at all sure it's a good choice. It's a great machine to record and play back on. I own a Nakamichi deck, unfortunately out of service. Judging from what's common on eBay, I think the CX-300 looks pretty good. Should I steer away from 1970s decks in favor of 1980s decks, assuming that more recently made decks still have a few years more life in them? Or do the 1970s decks still outperform 1980s decks or something like that? (I'm mostly going to listen to average commercial tapes, but I'd rather have the cassettes themselves be the limiting factor than any of the deck's specs.) Headphone output and microphone inputs are a plusĪbove all, the deck should sound good - as close to capable of flat 20-20,000Hz range as possible. Azimuth/bias adjustments are a plus, though I'll have to google a tutorial to figure out how to use themĦ. Don't need a lot of LEDs or digital lights - dependable/functional trumps "flashy" in my bookĥ. No auto-reverse (don't need to complicate the mechanics)Ĥ. Two heads (three heads would be a plus)ģ. Dolby B (Dolby C/HX Pro would be a plus)Ģ. Judging from what's common on eBay, I think the BX-300 looks pretty good. Though it's possible I'll fall in love with what probably will be the coolest tape deck I've ever owned and keep it. Not much use for the deck after that so maybe I'll just sell it back to the local shop after I'm done. ![]() I am primarily going to use this deck to transfer about 200 cassettes to WAV and then to CD-R. I have a local used equipment shop here that I'm working with to track down something in my price range, but I want to make sure I get a good model -dependable, good sound quality, less prone to breaking down, etc. I'm searching for a good used Nakamichi cassette deck.
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