My Constant State of Change System...

[Puffin]

I was awake for over 38 hours straight when I wrote that, which is why I worded it wrong. I meant to say that my thread lacked activity due to some recent events, new (to us) house, new (to me) car that I've been devoting some time and money to, family stuff that's been going on, and a new career, not that the forum lacked activity. Things have been a little frantic the past couple of years... In a good way for the most part.

No problem. You have a great system there.

[cube-tube]

Went ahead and added my dbx 224 to the stack. I purchased this first about 11 years ago when I had the Teac A-3300SX, then shortly after purchased the 224x. Sold the 224x when I sold the Teac.

As you can see, especially in the close up shot, this unit (like all of my gear) is absolutely mint. You may also notice the pile of Pig Hog XLR cables sitting up top, waiting for the Rane Balance Buddy to show up later this week along with the dbx 400x. I'll finally be able to start listening to these decks again.

Very nice, beefy and flexible cables I might add. They also make regular RCA cables, which I'll get eventually to wire all of the decks as the four cables I'm using now are rather stiff.

Anywho...

[Gazjam]

LOVE the old school tape storage units at the bottom, memories of my Folks having very similar.
Giving me the warm fuzzies they are.

The Naks are wonderful.

[cube-tube]

There's lots more where those came from, and all loaded with top quality recorded cassettes from my father and all three of my brothers.

That Nak 582 is a beast!

[hornucopia]

Should inspire me to get my Yamaha TC-800 fixed up!
I recall that Nakamichi made a similarly-slope fronted hi-fi that must be worth a bit now?

[cube-tube]

Should inspire me to get my Yamaha TC-800 fixed up!
I recall that Nakamichi made a similarly-slope fronted hi-fi that must be worth a bit now?

You should. I think everyone who has a worthy quality cassette deck should get them back up and running. They bring back memories of days gone past, and other that turntables and reel-to-reel decks, cassette decks give you something to handle and watch as it plays. Streamers are boring because they just sit there. CD players are almost as boring as they only give you a counter to look at, though there are a few that give you a view of the spinning disc, but those are rare.

I don't know about Nakamichi having a system that was sloped like that, but they did have a series that all looked alike and was rack mounted.

And for another little update... Introducing the Rane Balance Buddy BB 88x (44x upgraded to 88x) and the first of two dbx 400x units.

I promise that I will have this corner looking really good once I get a proper rack for all the gear and have everything organized. Right now, I'm just stacking the gear just so I can get it all connected, tested and listened to. In fact, I've been listening to cassettes for the past four hours now. Ahhh...

[cube-tube]

And a couple of cozy night time shots...

[Macca]

Should inspire me to get my Yamaha TC-800 fixed up!
I recall that Nakamichi made a similarly-slope fronted hi-fi that must be worth a bit now?

Nak 600:

[hornucopia]

I had one of those! But the Hi-Fi was multi-item, similarly sloped-fronted.

[Barry]

Nak 600:

Nice styling, but I always preferred the look of the Yamaha 'wedge':