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post #16 of 22
9/2/11 at 8:26am
The Nak is a CR-1A. I almost want to try it out, if I could find a cassette tongue.gif
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post #17 of 22
9/2/11 at 5:23pm
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its a nakamichi CR1-A theres loads of cassettes around dont know if you have charity shops in your location but if you want cassettes to try the nak out ebay your best bet do you use ebay.they sell loads of them and amazon sell cassettes aswell id go for some that aint prerecored ones like TDK chromes and record some cds on to it.How long has it been in the garage. you would need to clean the pinch roller with a cotton bud and some pure alcohol which is isopropanol not meths though my local dealer said not to use meths as it can damgage it,and the rest of the deck the capstans on it too.the esential thing to get the best out of it too is some decent interconnects but to test it the cheper red and white ones would do.They show alot of the inside of the decks on ebay sometimes the look awesome. I buy my banana plugs from japan or china and there nakamichi there better for the cables i use it doesnt fall out.Is anyone on here from america my auntie moved there twelve years ago. 

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post #18 of 22
9/3/11 at 10:17am

I had rigged up a car system based on the Nakamichi Portable casette player with Braun active speakers. Lot of WOW factor in it that time as it sounded great with lots of power (and volume). And I do remember using the TDK tapes-the hi bias ones.

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post #19 of 22
9/3/11 at 12:56pm
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bet it was good the best car audio is alpine probably still is but when cassettes were out you could get a denon seperate tape deck for the cars think kenwood did them too dont know about naks if they had seperate decks because wasnt into tapes at that time was only getting into seperates in 1993 think they did though had a denon pamphlet from the hifi shows thats how i know denon did one. here is one for everyone but probably wont agree but its true a tape walkman actually sounds better than an ipod but i dont rate ipods they way overpriced but sony have an mp3 player out now thats about twenty quid cheaper than the apple ipod touch and it holds double the amount of tracks and its not copyright when u put music on to it and it sounds better i will dig out my hifi-world and let you know what its called and see if anyone buys one,get a pair of sennheisers though and if you have ipods bin the naff headphones and buy some sennheisers there the best you can buy and theres loads on amazon and ebay i would recommend the PX100.

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post #20 of 22
9/4/11 at 5:50pm
Brought the deck in, dusted it off, plugged it in, and it works perfectly. Thanks OP, for getting my old Naks (CD player and cassette deck) back in action.
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post #21 of 22
9/5/11 at 1:12am

I have had several compact cassette decks. I still have a Sony TC-K950ES which is the best of the ones I've owned. I still use it to create compilations from CD's to play in my 2000 Camaro SS which has a factory installed cassette player. These tapes sound really good with Dolby B noise reduction. My only problem today is finding tape that's suitable for the 950ES, it chews up the thin stuff which used to be  loaded only in  the 120 minute cassettes, but now, appears to be loaded in 30, 45, and 90 minute tape packs. The tape I've had the greatest success with has been the Maxell UDXL variety. My Sony TC-K950 is not for sale BTW, don't ask. It still works perfectly; and, is useful for archiving  music I've come across  on cassette which I want to place in my  iTunes library. I also  have a pair of Sony Professional PCM-7010F DAT recorders which, of course, use digital audio cassettes. These units are connected to a Sony RM-D7200 edit controller/remote. I still use these for the editing of nature recordings, mostly thunder showers, made on still another DAT recorder, a Sony TC-D8. It's all good. That's to say, it all gets the job done, what ever the recording need. My only obstacle right now is getting the DAT recordings in my iTunes library. My DAT recorders have S/PDIF, AES-EBU, and analog XLR output, but no Toslink output; and,  I need a Toslink output to convert to USB  to get into the computer. Someone recently told me about a  device from M-Audio called a CO2 which  has the necessary converter; and, I'm looking forward to purchasing one of these when I have some spare change. At any rate, all of this stuff is obsolete, yet, occasionally useful as I find other audio/video gear in my rack like a Betamax deck.


Edited by sterling1 - 9/5/11 at 1:30am
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post #22 of 22
9/6/11 at 1:42pm
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hi the 120 min tapes were always to thin as you mention it were recommended not to use them with cassette decks if you want to record onto the dat player get an mp3 lead a god one qed ones go quite cheap but i would use a chord company though put a headphone jack onto it and put into the headphone socket then connect to your amp then you can record on it.im glad to see the nak deck is working and cd player what does it sound like.theres a cassette deck 2 on ebay for 35 quid but seen as i already have 3 cassette decks and concentrating more on my vinyl now as i just got a linn axis a couple of months ago.

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