it is mostly wonderful to see your reply to my note. Mostly, because I didn’t really expect a reply to this old thread after so much time has elapsed, but more importantly, mostly because your informative reply is so painful!
It took me a number of years before I actually had a suspicious thought about the transaction at the repair shop. It did cross my mind that the repairman was incompetent, but I thought it unlikely. What ultimately occurred to me was that the repairman wanted my unit for his own. I did leave the carcass behind. But I discarded that possibility as unlikely also. Simply because it’s hard for me to believe anyone would do that.. I’ve just assumed he must have been right. You’ve raised both those issues again and they are not pleasant to consider. All I can think to say at this point is I wish I had kept the carcass. I can’t begin to tell you how much I loved owning such a well regarded product. I think it’s called pride of ownership. Price was a factor too, because It greatly exceeded in price anything else I owned at the time. I owned a Pioneer SX-1050 I had bought new just a year before and I had some homely home made Bose 901 Speakers because I never covered the MDF with a wood veneer. I’m happy to say I put my Bose speakers in the garage when I bought my Quad ESL-63 electrostatic speakers. It’s possible my turntable came close to the cost of the Nakamichi because at that time I also owned the Bang & Olufsen Beogram 4004 and it was a pricey object too, though I don’t remember what I paid for it. I just turned to Google to see if I could discover the MSRP on it and instead I discovered that Bang & Olufsen has reintroduced the Beogram 4000 series and a refurbished unit sells for - get this - $11,000!!. What a shocking surprise! I still have my 4004. Maybe I should ask Bang & Olufsen what they would charge to just repair it. Well, I digress, it’ll give me something else to think about.
I will have my DR-1 repaired, regardless of its intrinsic value. Though to be truthful, I’m so into streaming my ripped CDs via Roon that I’m not sure I will ever feel the need to turn to my tape deck very often. What a shame, really.. Because I know how great tape sounds!
