Cassettes still rock!

Mhmyers.
Yep, it ain’t no joke how good some tapes cam sound on a good  Nakamichi deck.

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Just about any thread on Cassettes is going to end up being a Nakamichi lovefest.... for obvious good reasons.

Enjoy,

I posted a wanted ad a week ago on Craigslist for Nakamichi decks. Like I had stated above, I was a Nak dealer for many years and owned quite a few, but over the years and with various life situations, I had to sell most of them.

My Nak rep, (he sold other gear too), retired a few years ago and I picked up a very clean LX3 from him for $100. He had others, but I didn’t have the money at the time.

Over the past few days, I bought a (9/10, but not working) LX5 that took me a couple of hours to work on and it runs like a champ now for $50 and just purchased a (8/10) 680ZX that had a complete Willy Hermann service, (he had the receipt) back in 2009, for $300, that runs like new.

Must say, Nak fever hit me hard, but I think I’m cured, (for the time being anyway).

(I don’t mean to make light of the COVID19 circumstance...Sorry!)

We were NOT a Nak dealer but had Revox and Tandberg and it was always a tough sale against a Dragon.... the Tandberg , when it worked sounded great. Obviously both the Revox and Tand RtR are amazing machines.

i have a nice CR-2A in my garage system sounds nice on tapes I made for my Concord ( remember them ? / Alphasonic / Madisound system I had in my IROC

omg, I am dating myself....

I know where a Dragon TT can be found - but it’s not going to be a $100 craigslist score...

I owned 2 Nakamichi decks, the Dragon and a 505. I used metal tape for 90% of my recordings and chrome for the rest. Back then it was amazing. Not even on the same planet with today’s source components.