The Best Cassette Decks Ever? How do they compare to the Nak ZX-7?

[Beechwoods]

I don't understand how it can

it's magic The Nakamichi Dragon had a split right channel gap, and it would monitor the two signals coming from the same (right) channel looking for phase differences. The playback head would then be adjusted to result in 0 phase misalignment. This relies on poor azimuth resulting in phase error in a mono signal. It only did this at the start of the tape or at the start of a new segment...

I don't know if there were other systems that performed auto-azimuth control in a different way.

It is highly likely, Peter, that your Revox does auto-bias correction, which doesn't require the mechanical repositioning of the head.

Damn fine machine you've got there though. You really should use it (a lot!!).

[symon]

Yes, I know. I'm thinking about lending it to someone who has to do a lot of cassette transfers. I'm on the verge of saying yes, but I might give the machine a proper go through proper speakers first.

[Dave Cawley]

Due to a change in circumstances my CR-7 is for sale!

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Regards



Dave

[Yiangos]

My first casstte deck,was a Sony tc-something.It was the first casstte deck with solenoid controls and at the time was utterly expensive.it turned out was a piece of crap and sold it.My next 3 cassette decks (which i still have but don't work anymore) is a Teac z-7000,a nakamichi 680 and a Yamaha 1100.The Nakamichi had a natural sound but no treble,the Teac was better but had overheating problems and the Yammy was by far the best,to my ears at least.

[Chris]

I still have my Toshiba Aurex PCX-60AD somewhere. I remember it being touted on Hi-Fi Answers as the next best thing to a Nak so long as you adjusted the Azimuth and Dolby using tapes. Apparently the service manual was mistaken and their techoes in UK had modified the values needed. All I remember is that people always used to compliment me on the quality of my recordings but at the same time complained about the low level - maybe the analogue type vu-meters were too sensitive and that made me lower the recording level.
Happy days.

[Beechwoods]

Due to a change in circumstances my CR-7 is for sale!

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I'll be watching this keenly tomorrow lunchtime... I suspect it will end well out of my price-range. It's already pretty much passed the extent of my pockets... and deservedly so

[Dave Cawley]

I hope to get £600, but the biding profile suggests that £400 may be the limit!

Regards

Dave

[Beechwoods]

I'm not so sure... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=230358096169

[Dave Cawley]

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Dave

[Beechwoods]

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