‘Golden Ears’ cables.. 1970s ! I need to have my B215 revamped like your Nak. Nice system. SA 90’s were my tape of choice in the day. Still have most of all my recorded tapes still.

Love it when you review your system, never got tired when you were in Vegas, never tired now. Audio ecstasy.

Love these videos. Nak and Electro what a combination:)

Love listening to it, super nice Paul!

I love my Dragon, bought it new and love it

Calm down in the valley in Oregon, but have a friend that lives up in Seattle, and he said it was quite the weekend up there as you mentioned Taylor Swift, The Bite of Seattle, Capital Hill Block Party, and a Mariners game as well. Busy, busy!!

That McIntosh Poweramp reminds me the day I found a local audio store.. it was summer 1989, I walked in to have a look and it felt only rich people could go in. And I saw their demo room.. an amp similar to this and a set of XRT22s. The salesman even went so far as to plug in bare wires from a stripped power chord and plugged them into the 120v socket! 60hz hum from the wall. Disconnected it and reconnected the amp.. and just played some classical music. The following day my buddy and I were downtown half in the bag, we bought Led Zeppelin 4. It was almost 9pm but he let us in. And I put the cd on the system..and not loud. He came in and said, no! You need more volume. And cranked it I never heard sound like that and that loud, so clear. It blew me away. And I never experienced that again. We both left like we heard God. Sadly, I m not likely to ever find a set of XRT22s.. but I do wish for them.

Great video and description.

Great videos, sound, and the view .

Man, you are going to make me break out my Nak RX-505. I have a ton of tapes Metal, chrome, normal. The one item I’m actually surprised that isn’t in your system yet is a Reel to Reel Deck. You took me down memory lane with the comparisons and the recordings. I use to flip my monitor button from on to off for comparison to the original source. The blanks if you are buying metal and chrome tapes have jumped in price tremendously due to lack of supply. I always loved listening to the sound from on the different tape formulations. My CD player is the Audio Research CD MKII and I love it. Your channel wouldn’t be complete without that gorgeous view!!!

Plus very nice vintage meets modern aesthetics!

Thanks for bringing the memories of that era when we transferred the music from vinyl to cassetts to use with portable players and home cassette players. Any chance you can do same, mean make an recording from vinyl to cassette? This would make pure analogue bliss at the end. As always, great video!

🙋‍♂️THANKS VP, for sharing July … sorry, but I don’t do Instagram 🤷‍♂️

Interesting videio. Very informatve. One thechical issue. It looks like the the video recording is versaturated.

hey vc ,this is a nice piece hifi artwork, as i live in switzerland we have a lot revox tapedecks here,i own reVox B 710 , but i am loocking forward to get my hands on a nakamichi i hope, btw i solve the grounding loop i had, it was the mt 2 turntable, it is now on his way to mcintosh for repairing, maybe i will upgrad to mt5 what you have, greetings klajess

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I totally get that it's fun to play around with old technology like compact cassettes but thinking that it is (anywhere near) high fidelity is just wrong. A very narrow tape crawling at low speed over a static head results even with a topnotch deck in a lot of noise, loads of harmonics, limited frequency response at reasonable recording/playback levels and a channel separation of only 50dB measured with a simple single 1KHz tone. Then there is also tape saturation, linearity problems, flutter & wow off course. Dolby noise reduction systems are band-aids for the high noise but looking back nothing to write home about. Serious tape recording and playback is done on professional equipment with much wider tapes and higher speeds and even then there is always a lot of compromises. We have moved on for a reason. Oh, and "digital glare or harshness" are buzzwords from the beginning of digital recording techniques way back in time.

ECM 1 MK 11 Streamer: Has anyone ever come across the problem of the remote control having the mute & volume up & down not working. Or, the digital inputs not finding a signal. Or the units first use, having the volume at 100 fresh out of the box ?

Just curious- how does the tape sound compare to the vinyl?

8:37 anyone tried this on a Laserdisc? I have cleaned my original Trilogy with warm water and wash liquid and it took forever and was extremely difficult to avoid the centre label getting wet.

ECM 1 MK 11 Streamer: Does any one know if this unit has an outomated tone compensation when the volume is adjusted? Like some preamps do to compensate for hearing losses of bass and treble as the volume is turned down !

How about a fuse upgrade for the Nak??

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