3 players gives different levels of sounds which southes clients live experience Akai GX gives you clarity as well as class sound, Sony TC gives you sound prompt. Where as the Leader is always Nakamichi Dragon everything in it as it's built in that way fantastic.

Was für ein schlechtes Video. Auch im vorherigen part wird nicht gezeigt wie die Bremse und das Idler demontiert wurden. Das ganze ist nur reden und wild mit der Kamera hin und her schwenken. Leider kein Video was eine ordentliche Hilfe bietet.

Can’t hear one word - why whisper ?

I have to comment on how good this unit sounds, for a whopping $50 it has totally transformed the sound of my cassette recordings. All I did was purchase off eBay, put a little Dexoit in the push button switches, and it worked pretty perfectly. Within the next year or two I’ll have it recapped, but for right now I’m enjoying it as is and can’t believe the sound quality. Talk about increasing the dynamic range of the music and killing all of hiss…. Pretty amazing.

The deck need to be off for demagnetize?

I've seen it from your videos, but now you do it so skilled. BTW, is the black compound must be fully shown? Thank you. So strange to see alive heads in so old deck.

Any of these can bw considered thw best dassette dexk ever, not just by Pioneer. However, they are so expensive to day, as are the tapes. Unless you are recordinf from an analogue source and/or makinacije a mixtape for a friend, I just don't rhink there's much printer in recording to tape. Pleše don't misunderstand, I love my tapes and decks but rhe Costa of ownership and maintenance is very high. Tape used to be the answer to affordable yet high-fidelity home recording. High-fidelity it is but affordable it is not. Not anymore. Cheers!

Sony sounds the best to me.

My pioneer ct s 910 has exactly the same results 🙂

Just wondering myself... It's possible to fit this mechanism into a ct 95? I believe it is possible Like you managed to do it on that nakamichi, and turning it into a direct drive one (before being a belt drive one)

Well,only tweaking mainly, nakaas,sonnyys,akais, few brands only. Make also,some vinyl player tinkering. Just for change. It would be nice to see , how u do a diamant needle lapping. Or some like those. 🤔

Thank you so much! This is invaluable as I'll be changing the belt of my TD-V711 which is nearly identical to this unit.

sooo smooth !

The Sony sounds like a cd player and the dragon sounds like good turntable

I have a dumb question, how do you get the boards to stand up like that? What am i missing. 🫤

You forgot about the Aiwa AD-F 990.

Hi, and thanks for the video, it sounds great! I just picked up the same DBX unit, it is yet to be delivered. I have the same cassette deck as yours, although it’s not the EV model. Did you recap the DBX unit, and wondering what else you did to it if anything? Are you recording around 0 dBor hotter? Thanks.

i believe those are useless. The only good one in my opinion is the old fashion way type demagnetiser, the one with a core and a wrapped coil around it wich you run the tip of it for few seconds, around each heads and capstans...You know what i'm reffering to. Can even feel the strong magnetic field when you approach the heads...

Are you still around fixing the Nakamichi Tape Deck? My old Nakamichi ZX-9 that I purchased new in the 1980s is not working anymore for more than 10 years now. It still power on but not playing or rewinding or fast forward no more. I was thinking maybe it's the belt. Maybe you can give me some ideas on where to look or how to fix it myself. I really missed that deck now and I do not want to sell it but I have no money to get it fix. I am a disabled senior now and my hobby is listening to music since I was a kid. How much do you charge to fix my deck and how do I send it to you.

I see someone became to be a Nakamichi addict)). Great work as usually, thanks for a share. By myself never had Naks, dislike it design..maybe i mistake. Thank you!

This is a great deck and number 1 repairman in the whole US!

Why you are not showing how exactly you tune the levels, like it is a big secret...explain all the steps of how the deck it's been tuned and you might get more subscribers like that. Would you at least tell us what equipment, test tapes etc. one need in order to tune decks? Thanks!

Got one of these in the shop Saturday afternoon. Rewind is very slow and obviously needs an idler tire. May i ask where you sourced yours? Thanks Randy Brown

Any interest in restoring reel to reel decks? :) Maybe some revox and studer reel to reel units from time to time? :) you certainly have a VAST amount of knowledge when it comes to tape. There is a BIG lack of content out there on youtube for servicing reel to reel decks - the few content creators out there that do it keep their knowledge to themselves and dont explain any processes, like its some big secret :( all you usually get with those videos is a "here is a unit I restored" lol... no troubleshooting, no explanation on the process or tips. lol

Totally understand you! I have found out that 4,5seconds is ok, but more than that triggers copyright. Its very frustrating…reedit, recompiling and uploading video takes time… Cheers

Is it the same as gx-8

I cant believe i found you...This is my favorite player...

OMG...How do you remember how to get it back together...?

So great gifts, well done!

My battery just died after 6 years. Paid $6 for replacement battery and now it's back up and running. Thanks for the detailed video, it helped a ton.

What's the trick to getting the eject cams aligned?

Nejhezčí tapedeck všech dob. Skutečný highend.

Thanks for the video. I transferred 25,000 songs from Apple to Tidal, it took almost 2 days. Never again, I hope Tidal never goes out of business.

Thank you for the video As far as it consider the Dolby level and meter range the manual says different setting than you used. It says 338mV at test points near dolby chip not -5dB at line out !

CR-7a was probably the best deck Nakamichi made measurement wise.

Большая благодарность за вашу работу! Всегда приятно посмотреть, перенять опыт. Сам лично использую полимерные Nippon Chemi-Con серий PS (PSE, PSC, PSF, PSG) везде, где не критичны большие токи утечки. Оптимальны по цене, и очень долговечны - до 20000 часов.

Hi! What audio is going into the PC - Signal into unit input - direct to unit output? Or Signal to unit input - to TAPE - to tape output - back to PC / NAK T-100? Thanks.

It's great that you still keep saving this underrated audio equipment.bravo ,

Ker se že več kot 35 let bavim profesionalno z glasbo, verjetno ne bi mogel odkriti razliko med njimi in ugotoviti kateri zveni boljše ! Moj sluh je namreč od poslušanja že okvarjen ! To kar počnete vi je preseravanje ! Slišite nekaj česar nj in mi profesionalci tega niti ne slišimo !?

The best-looking cassette deck ever produced. Best sounding too as I still play mine almost every day. Flawless in EVERY way!!!

New amazing repairing and video. I named it Blue moon Nakamichi

Großartiger Vergleich. Danke dafür 👍✌️🙂

If I’m not mistaken on an Apple device, you have to use the camera adapter to get high res into a DAC. Is that what you do on your Apple devices? I think if you go directly from the lightning port into a DAC it tops out at 24/48. I don’t know on the newer devices with USB-C. This is what I’ve always done on my iPhone, when I connected it directly to a DAC. Anymore I use a Wiim mini optical out to my DAC.

Beautiful decks! Both are superb Nakamichi machines. I love the CR-7!

Hi, I have been experiencing this issue with apple music and I am suspecting my wi-fi connection as my playback often stops. I am now considering ethernet cabling but for now I am trying downloading apple music to my IOS and Mac to prove that it is my wi-fi

Hi Res, basically moving distortion futher up the chain to make it easier to impliment cheap dacs and charge more money. Plenty of info on the internet showing how identical music masters released on 24/192 and 16/44 can not be dicerned by listeners, incuding reviewers and mastering engineers, in ABX testing. Also info on how 16/44 is all the dynamics and frequency range we can deal with and hear as humans in a domestic environment. You then add that the majority of music on this planet is actually 16bit resolution or less, and that the majority of mics used in the music industry cannot acurately capture above 20Khz or do high dynamic range, and you quickly see by dynamic range of 96db to 106db with a frequency range of 10hz to 20Khz is more than we need and more than most audio equipment can actually produce. Even funnier is that all this music is recorded with $2 per meter starquad running many many meters into patch bays running further lengths into more patch bays and mixers through conduit, so some engineer can take half a dozen different tracks recorded on different days in different rooms, then with plug ins and all manner of stuff, distort, add punch, remove dynamics, increase levels here, decrease levels there, equalize this, compress that and pan all these individual rooms into what sounds like a sound stage with depth and width and placement of instruments, so he can then downmix from 24/192 to 16/44, where HiRes streaming platforms then restream at claimed higher resolution, so audiophiles can then claim they hear 50Khz and more detail from the recording with their $6000 interconnects than you could ever get from cheap cable or physical media. Crazy days, my houseplant told me. But in all seriousness people are paying for hi res and simply enjoying a different mastering, not hearing hi res, its as big a scam as cables.

I love the black plastic plate and the piece of metal (aluminum?) that you use to adjust the left pinch roller with the nut. Is this original Sony or where did you get it from?

Tidal bitrate conversion is not working on iOS devices these days. I don't know why but they don't fix it for a long time. It works correctly on windows devices and Tidal connect also works fine.

I'm currently use Tidal as it was supposed to be better than the super popular Spotify in terms of frequency!

Thanks for the video, I wonder if it’s not a setting somewhere? I use Tidal from the Wiim mini, optical into my Topping DAC then into my receiver. I always get 96 or 192 when available. It sounds like something is creating a bottleneck on your end, either that or setting on Tidal. I know you have to enable it, I’m assuming you did. Kind of strange but Tidal is my favorite, much better since they got rid of the MQA in my opinion.