Step up from Nakamichi 582 tape deck?

You know you are a serious addicted tape head when you buy 200 rock tapes off eBay for $60 shipped.

And then buy a Nak 660zx just for a backup spare tape deck......

I had a 1000 ZXL .....can't get better (sorry I sold it...needed a belt...so did I)

Yes you did …. lol

But I could say the same over ALL the old muscle cars I have owned which back then were just old gas guzzlers and not 50 to 100k plus machines.

The wisdom of hindsight but the fun of misguided youth … No regrets!

The ZX-9 arrived.  Me, too stupid to know to push that Azimuth button, didn't.  Willie Hermann is a gentleman, and didn't call me stupid.  There really are a lot of buttons and stuff to learn about on this machine, meanwhile it really does sound pretty amazing.  I made a short tape and pretty impressed. 

Well the zx7 arrived today and what a machine, I am sure they landed a man on the moon with less computing power and switches than this deck has!

The 660zx was a nice step up from the 582 indeed.

But this is in another league entirely.

Playback is extremely detailed, maybe not quite as much bottom end as the 660 but a lot more air and detail .

Very happy so far ,next up will be plopping in a TDK SA, setting azimuth for that tape and make a recording from Qobuz hires.