[clc220]

just wanting to do some research here. are nakamichi cd players any good ? or they just known for their cassette players?

 

[donthuang]

errr....you mean this?
http://www.niji.or.jp/home/k-nisi/oms-70.htm

the japanese says it can compare with sony 553esd+DAS 703es

 

[clc220]

lol no, it is oms-7. but just curious i've never owned a full sized cd player by sony (only have pcdp), how do those models you said sound ?

 

[proglife]

I highly recommend not buying an old CD player. A cheap, modern DVD player should sound better.

 

[Large4mat]

I worked at an audio store where we sold Nakamichi and Denon equipment, (among others). I'd take a Denon CD player from that era over the Nakamichi any day of the week.

 

[clc220]

yeah, i guess they were just legendary in the tape deck era's.

also a dvd sounds better ? i've heard very different opinions about dvd's ...

 

[proglife]

Quote:

Originally Posted by clc220 yeah, i guess they were just legendary in the tape deck era's. also a dvd sounds better ? i've heard very different opinions about dvd's ...

you can't compare cheap digital in the last few years with digital from a long time ago....

...much like computers.

 

[Large4mat]

IMHO, some of the old Denon players will sound better than the newer, cheap DVD players...............like the Toshiba SD-3960 for instance. This and the SD-3950 were all the rage some time ago. I've listened to the 3960 against two older Denon decks, and the Denon units killed it. You're mileage may vary.

 

[skyline889]

I don't know about the OMS-7 but I assume it was a newer or higher end model of the OMS-5, which I have. The sound quality of the OMS-5 is excellent, even by modern standards, it is a reference quality player.

The OMS-5 retailed for $1k back in 1983 so factoring in inflation, if that were today's market it would have retailed for $1897, which puts it in the mid-fi reference cd player market. Like I said it is a very detailed cd player, and sounds great, the only problem it has, and I don't know if this was solved with the OMS-7 or not, but the laser has a tendency of just dieing for no apprent reason. When it was in father's possession he had the $500 pick-up replaced twice, in the time it was mine I had the pick-up swapped once from an OMS-5 with a crapped up chassis, and it has died again recently.

If Nakamichi fixed the laser problem with the OMS-7 and the sound quality is just as good, I'd say grab it. If the laser still breaks, don't. Nakamichi was bought out in the early '90s and parts are now impossible to find.

 

[clc220]

hmmmmmm, yeah but its very hard to find info about nakamichi. i'll see how much it ends up costing (on ebay). but thanks everyone for the info much appreciated.