The Harmon Kardon CD401 cassette deck was every bit as good as the Nakamichi. They only made it for one year, but it had Dolby B/C and HX Pro noise reduction, three heads, and you could bias the deck to match the tape as it had an adjustable bias circuit. When used with metal particle tapes and the HX Pro noise reduction it provided phenomenal recording and playback.
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Even though, back in the 80s, except for Nak. none of these brands would make my Best of list, a good many young audio enthusiasts found all of the brands listed by leemurray2007, to be an affordable solution for enjoyable listening. I have to agree about the Nak, cassette players. After having trouble with my Tandberg deck, eating tapes, my dealer set me up with a Nakamichi ZX9. It served me flawlessly for ten years and on metal tapes, made incredible recordings. After being boxed and put into storage for nearly 20 years, I got it out, had it cleaned and serviced for sale and it performed with no issues. After recently finding my old collection of tapes that I thought had been lost in a move, I'm kind of wishing I had it back. Jim |
This is too funny. I had one of these back in the day. When it finally stopped working there were no parts available to repair it. Oh well. It was a nice looking unit though. Kyocera D-811 Cassette Deck Review price specs - Hi-Fi Classic (hifi-classic.net) |
In the 1980's I bought a Nakamachi cassette deck because I wanted the best available. It sounded magnificent when it was new, but it wore out in only one year and cost more to repair every year that to replace it, something I was not willing to do. I expect components to last and easy to repair and maintain. |
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