Which Nakamichi to choose?

Just bought a bx300 serviced and new idler so hopefully should be good to go for a number of years.
This will go into my second system (possibly) after I have compared it to the 582 in my main system and decide which I prefer in the main rig.

Probably paid too much bit whatever.

I gave a ton of cassettes away when I concluded the medium was antiquated. I'm posting to let anyone who has their deck in mothballs know that they had better drag it out and play it; those decks will quit working if not played.

There is a Dragon near me  and the asking price is $1600. Beautiful, but why?

I love cassettes for nostalgia’s sake but for the kind of money a good machine and the high cost of tapes, I have decided to allocate the cash to more vinyl. NOTHING compares to the sound of good vinyl on a good turntable. Given that it provides a superior listening experience I feel it is worththe investment. Cassettes were hugely fun back in the day. Making mixed tapes was one of my favourite things to do. I would even tape new music off of the college and alternative radio stations that was only available on expensive import vinyl. My pride and joy in my system was my Nak. But it just doesn’t make sense to dive back into another audio medium. I have a hard enough time finding room for my records and CDs. I wish I was less pragmatic and more romantic but alas, it is not to be.