Just got my Nak Dragon - Wow

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I am actually a big fan of the old Nakamichi products

I had a Nakamichi 250 in my car in high school
an Nakamich LX5 later in one of my favourite systems
and I also had 2 Dragons which I agree are very good

I used to agonize over cleaning records, stylus etc and then try to make great tapes for replay and/or the car

I think an old cassette deck or reel to reel would be great for archiving LPs

just not so sure its worth the time and effort to record digital sources which was my point

Yes I have made many tapes and listened to them while saving my records. I am 43 and if I had not used my tape player so much I would have worn out my records with the cheap TT's I had. Here is the cassette decks I have used. Starting back in 77. $100 Pioneer/$250 JVC 79/$500 2 speed BIC!!81(never would stay aligned) $500 Nak 84/$500 Aiwa in 86/HK TD 4600 in 93/Sony KA3ES in 2000 and finally a Tandberg 3014A in 2004. Cassettes have never sounded so good. Tape deck nut

Well, I'm delighted that others are enjoying old fashioned technology still. I still use LP as my primary source. I don't think I'll be using the Dragon to archive my LPs yet. I really bought it to archive some old 35 year old R2R tapes that I found of my long lost grandad for my grandma, who doesn't understand CDs - she was 90 two weeks ago!!!
So with my 'let's buy something decent hat on', I've ended up with a Dragon and a Revox G36. I haven't used tape sources for 20 years, having been a vinyl addict. Now I can listen to all those pre-recorded tapes that we never threw out in our various house moves.

Whats the freq range of cassettes anyway? no roll off or congestion anywhere?

I heard a great Tandberg Cassette deck a few weeks ago, and I was very impressed!

I had a Nak Dragon for 6 years and recently sold it but what's surprises me is that I don't miss it. The Nak Dragon is a fine deck but its way too finicky and that NAAC which is nice can be a pain in the behind. I had mine serviced at nakamichi in L.A. and it was back to new again but this is just too much mesing around with different tape when your ready to record. I picked up a Luxman K-03 deck and it sounds better than the NaK Dragon I had, also the Luxman K-03 can record alot louder than the Dragon without breaking up or distorting. One thing I liked about the Luxman K-03 is that the tapes it makes are great and play back great on most decks unlike the Dragon. Also when I opened the Dragon up and seen what was inside I kinda soured on it. Now I'm happy with the Luxman K-03 deck which sounds great and has a very nice headphone section in it, and it has some great functions as well.