Nakamachi Dragon Observation

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WOW!

I just google-imaged Nakamichi Dragons. Now THAT's a cassette deck! Put that in front of today's teens and see if they know what all those buttons do.

[Trevor]

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> WOW!
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> I just google-imaged Nakamichi Dragons. Now THAT's a.....

Bloody expensive cassette deck in it's day! (or still)

>Put that in front of today's teens and see if they know what all those
>buttons do.

Or care. More to the point, put it side by side with a good 2 track digital
interface AND computer costing less than 1/4 the price in real dollar terms
and see which one blows the other out of the water in nearly every possible
measureable parameter. Then try and do some editing on the Nak! :-0
I'm glad I lived to see the end of those things trying SO hard to make HiFi
out of a dictaphone tape! (and still not succeeding)
But A for effort in trying to make a silk scarf out of a sows ear I guess.
They did get closer than anyone else.

Trevor.

[William Sommerwerck]

"Trevor" wrote in message ...
> wrote in message
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>> I just google-imaged Nakamichi Dragons. Now THAT's a.....

> Bloody expensive cassette deck in its day! (or still)

>> Put that in front of today's teens and see if they know what
>> all those buttons do.

> Or care. More to the point, put it side by side with a good 2 track digital
> interface AND computer costing less than 1/4 the price in real dollar terms
> and see which one blows the other out of the water in nearly every possible
> measureable parameter. Then try and do some editing on the Nak! :-0
> I'm glad I lived to see the end of those things trying SO hard to make HiFi
> out of a dictaphone tape! (and still not succeeding)
> But A for effort in trying to make a silk scarf out of a sows ear I guess.
> They did get closer than anyone else.

I once had to record a concert with a 700 (or 700 II -- I forget which), and I
assure you, it made a truly high-fidelity recording. Of course, the recording
(though on metal tape) did not. The high frequencies have slowly self-erased.

If you remove the low-pass filter in the record circuits, the Dragon will
actually get to 30kHz with metal tape. Of course, bandwidth is not the sole
factor in sound quality.