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Post by Guest on Nov 16, 2016 12:21:17 GMT
After buying several tape decks, ( I love them for their tremendous versatility) I have plumped for the premium make. Review to follow when it arrives.  |
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Post by MartinT on Nov 16, 2016 12:24:31 GMT
Nice catch! That should do the job.
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Post by Guest on Nov 16, 2016 12:41:15 GMT
Got him down to £147:00 do not know if that is a good price?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 13:00:37 GMT
Very nice, I have always wanted to hear a Nakamichi cassette deck!
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Post by julesd68 on Nov 16, 2016 13:09:47 GMT
Beautiful!
£147 I think is a good price if it's in full working order and doesn't need servicing ...
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Post by jandl100 on Nov 16, 2016 14:38:22 GMT
Yes, that is a very beautiful looking machine. Well done!
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Post by MartinT on Nov 16, 2016 14:42:46 GMT
Good price, too.
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Post by speedysteve on Nov 16, 2016 16:57:29 GMT
Nice. There's something nice about quality veteran and vintage gear.
I had a black Harman Kardon top of the range Cass deck back in the late 80's / early 90's.
It was even tuned to be optimum with TDK chrome tapes (at my request).
Back then I really could not tell the difference been the original vinyl and the recording. It really was good.
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Post by Sovereign on Nov 16, 2016 17:12:21 GMT
Well done Steve, never heard a proper tape deck, your obviously onto a good thing.
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Post by ChrisB on Nov 16, 2016 17:53:17 GMT
Nice deck - they're lovely clean looking things esp. in that finish. Only two heads but they're good ones and, slightly unusually for a two head design, it's got twin capstans so speed stability is great if everything is in order. The transport buttons are a bit quirky in use though.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 20:21:33 GMT
Yeh great. Every one ive owned has broken down
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Post by dsjr on Nov 16, 2016 21:05:26 GMT
Oh dear - not about the 580, but the fact I owned both a Dragon and a CR7 at different times, as well as a 682ZX, which I should have kept, as well as a LX5 which broke down, an original 700 and 700ZXE, the first suffering from old age and needing discontinued spares and the ZXE being crotchety as this generation were, the 1000 series especially bad here. As an aside, the Dragon was the most endearing and they improved over their very long production life. I remember being totally blasé about the CR7 until the day I sold it to my collector friend. he put it on the kitchen table to clean it (he was fastidious regarding condition) and I remember thinking what a jerk I was, as looking at it straight on, it was amazing.. Enjoy the 480. It's not as easily tweakable as the bigger ones was, but if properly set up, it should make great recordings for you on good tapes  They certainly understood the format like few others, although the odd one or two came close later on. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 21:51:42 GMT
I moved to Technics quite some time ago. I just prefer the Techies in every way.
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Post by ynwan on Nov 19, 2016 8:50:04 GMT
Back in 'the day' I used to do A/B comparisons of tape decks - even record on each and then play that back. Invariably the Nakamichi's were the best sounding beating the Denon, Technics and Aiwa models we also carried.
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They certainly understood the format like few others, although the odd one or two came close later on.