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Originally Posted by Dilettante
Never heard of EPI speakers before. Must have been long before I was born. lol.
Back in the 1980s my dad used to have a Nakmichi Dragon cassette deck player and he told me it was one of the best sounding cassette deck player ever made. I wish I was around to experience that back then. He kept the Dragon till early to mid 1990s I think.
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I'm probably around your dad's age (56) and had 8 Nak tape decks over the years including a Dragon and still have three Nakamichi cassette decks, but they obviously don't get much play time these days. My 700ZXL is probably the best and my all-time fav, but the ZX-7 and LX-5 are not too far behind. The Dragon and ZX-9 were the best performers overall imo. The main reason for having cassette decks back in the 80's was to record favorite vinyl LP's in order to minimize wear and tear of the vinyl, and the top Nak decks were capable of an essentially flawless dub of any vinyl LP or CD source, particularly with Dolby C NR and using a TDK SA-X or MA tape.
I think half the fun was in the setting up, cleaning, demagnetizing, and calibrating / tuning the deck to the tape formulation, and similarly with vinyl there was tracking and speed optimization etc, so the process of recording vinyl to tape was quite involved and time consuming, but very rewarding when it all went to plan.