Hi - just reviving an old thread..

Lodgesound - are these Nagras, which must be getting to be 14 odd years old now, still worth using in terms of their sound quality/value (and perhaps considering wear and tear)? When you see them for sale around the net, people are often asking around £2000 but does their sound quality still hold up? Of course many people will go on about 24 bit this and that and 96 or 192 KHz sampling rates but those specs don't actually take into account real sound quality or build quality.

Is the Nagra-D still valid today and for the prices they fetch?