Nice deck, and a lot pf people envy you, especially three years later. Unfortunately some of the comments below are really disgusting, especially by James K., another armchair expert who just has to do his best to ruin it for everyone. What a pathetic loser.
@mtyzsw6549 Жыл бұрын
Is this the best deck in the world ? I have 2 decks of Technics , but this one seems to be better 😀
@young_of_the_mill9560 Жыл бұрын
Also, any tips on how to learn how to troubleshoot and repair this type of equipment?
@young_of_the_mill9560 Жыл бұрын
I like that light, what’s the make and model?
@bananajoe80102 жыл бұрын
Your Nakamichi is completely overdriven +7 db is too much level. The whole sound picture is broken. Sorry, the machine eclipses everything that can be done with a cassette. That's the Holy Grail, that's all
@troynthomas12 жыл бұрын
...I know it's now 2021, but I just stumbled across your vid, but having a broadcast background and hence, an extensive AUDIO background as well - not to mention loads of 'hands-on' experience with MANY home and broadcast machines...I wanted to save you the embarrassment where you mention two capstans/pinch rollers - only ONE side containing both a capstan and it's designated pinch roller the capstan uses - actuall 'drive' or move the tape! The reason there are TWO capstans and Pinch Rollers - is because...IT'S AN A U T O R E V E R S E DECK !!! When the transport changes tape sides, the opposite 'pair' of capstan and roller take over the job - jeeze. Oh well, hope you're not blushing ?? It's all good
@davisneil2 жыл бұрын
The dragon is the only auto reverse deck I know of with a closed loop double capstan. When it plays the reverse side the capstans reverse direction and the other pair of stereo pickups switched in. This differs from an auto reverse deck in that the capstans turn in opposite directions and are selected by only one pinch roller at a time. The playback heads rotate through 180 degrees on a housing that flips them round Nearly all other dual capstan deck have basically the one on the right doing the donkey work pulling the tape, whereas the down stream capstan and pinch roller (left side) is moving in the same direction as the right one but ever so slightly slower (either by a smaller diameter capstan , larger flywheel or electronics in the case of direct drive flywheels.) The tension is able this to be perfectly regulated to the point that the felt guide isn’t even needed, and is even pushed aside in some decks including naks because the friction can make the guide judder about causing a flutter.
@JacobFrey2 жыл бұрын
Mark, I have to comment, not to save you any embarrassment, because you've done that - but to inform you that despite your EXTENSIVE HANDS-ON AUDIO EXPERIENCE, there are MANY dual capstan cassette decks that only play in one direction - they use 2 capstans + 2 pinch rollers to move the tape across the heads. Hope you're not blushing . . .
@jameskoralewski10063 жыл бұрын
The cheapest CD player sounds better than that Nakamichi. I should know, I bought one new in the early eighties and it is still in NEW condition!
@jameskoralewski10063 жыл бұрын
What other antique old crap do you like? Do you collect Edsels, too?
@downhillman10003 жыл бұрын
1:00 Cassette tapes came out in the early 60’s?
@kotokoto94723 жыл бұрын
Hi, how do you correct the peaks at vumeters without the dedicated left and right potentiometers. Thanks.
@Roopak-Mohan2 жыл бұрын
it has a dedicated left and right potentiometers, also a master level control
@ThriftyAV3 жыл бұрын
I always wanted one of these in the 80s... Over the years, I have found 3 Naks, but none are the Dragon! Nice vid.
@miss.wright30353 жыл бұрын
strange how the Dragon was and is considered one of the best, yet it doesn't take Ferro nor does it got balanced I/O's.
@Retronomy3 жыл бұрын
Nice set! Very nice set.
@sidvicious31293 жыл бұрын
The dragon is an outstanding deck, I owned one four years ago for two years and I loved it. It started to need some service work, which as you know can be extremely expensive and it was hard to find a great tech that would touch it. I always hated selling it and years went by and one year ago I came across my second childhood deck, the dragon was my first, a Nakamichi Rx-505, the auto reversing deck that I as a kid loved to see pop out of the deck and reverse. The 505 sounds amazing and I got it in its original box with the Nakamichi remote control. The dragon matched better with a wider range of tape compatibility. My third deck to have is the the highend Revox that supposedly matched the dragon, but my real question is about the Tasman Da-3000 that you have. I have been thinking about getting one for Tidal recording and playback. How good is this as an option and can it be hooked into my dac. Do you have any videos or are you going to make any videos on the Tascam? Great video talking about the virtues of the mighty dragon. My second deck is a 3 head Sony TC-K690.
@baron81034 жыл бұрын
NO HIZO EL DETALLE DE LOS EQUIPOS...HABLO....HABLO Y HABLO....
@sunsan9974 жыл бұрын
笑顔がいいですね。大切に使用してください。私もNakamichi は好きです。
@sunsan9974 жыл бұрын
素晴らしいですね。うらやましい。
@halitmarmaris4 жыл бұрын
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@halitmarmaris4 жыл бұрын
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@smokingstone11414 жыл бұрын
I always wanted a Dragon, but could never afford one. I heard a demo tape on a Nakamichi 581 sometime back in the Dark Ages (it was heavenly), and I scraped together all my pennies and bought one. (I was really poor and it was really expensive.) It was one of the best music purchases I ever made. I played it until I wore it out. I then got an LX-3 and later an LX-5. I still have a Nakamichi deck in a box, but it is Not a Dragon. It is also Not a 581. If wish I could buy a brand new 581.
@FluxCondenser4 жыл бұрын
I like the magnetic board for holding the screws and being able to write where each goes. Handy. Were you having symptoms on this deck which indicated the caps were failing? Did you test the caps you pulled for leakage? Or, was this done more for preventative maintenance? Nakamichi used good quality caps, so replacing them isn’t necessarily a given as it would be with much older equipment.
@FluxCondenser4 жыл бұрын
Cassettes came out in the early 60s. The first stereo decks around ‘67. Dolby B came around in the early 70s. I’m guessing the, “cassettes came out in ‘82” was a slip. Nice demo, great machine.
@diemman704 жыл бұрын
Thanks for correcting this video as I was about to since we were playing cassettes in the 1970s.
@ivanmarkovicxxx2 жыл бұрын
He probably just meant to say the Dragon came out in '82...
@jameskoralewski10064 жыл бұрын
Are you backward or what? Cassette decks have gone the way of the dinosaur. Where do you even buy blank cassette tapes and at what price? Aren't you aware that a reproduction onto a CD will always be better than any cassette deck reproduction? I love the Dragon, too. I bought one new in 1982 and still have it, but I record onto the better medium of CDs, not cassettes. You're better off turning the Dragon into a museum piece.
@cinqo74 жыл бұрын
James Koralewski stop being an asshole. CDs are dinosaurs too. Streaming with reference quality DACs MQA files or listening to downloaded hi res songs is the way to go now if you don’t want to be arguably a dinosaur like yourself. You’re stuck in the 90s LOL
@diemman704 жыл бұрын
There is some magic about all the technology that went into these beautiful cassette decks.
@jameskoralewski10064 жыл бұрын
@@diemman70 I know. I still own one.
@micheltremblay47743 жыл бұрын
@@diemman70 I still have a Nakamichi Dragon, bought it new in 1985. I use mainly TDK MA-XG90 and source or tape is identical, the source being a studio recorded tape on my TEAC X-1000RBL. It can make a TDK D90 sounds like a chrome or metal tape recorded on my Harman Kardon CD191. The NAAC system is complex but works wonders. One particularity of the Dragon's transport hardly ever mentioned is the lifting of the felt pad of the cassette and using a slight speed differential to keep the tape tight on the heads.
@diemman703 жыл бұрын
@@micheltremblay4774 Reminds me of that scene in STNG where Data adjusts Jordi’s shaver to make it perfect and Jordi doesn’t use it then and Data asks him why. I just like the original, imperfect way it shaved.