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nakamichi vs NAD

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kquail

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ok here is my question
it may sound silly but i have to ask ,i have a NAD 6300 cassette deck, the best 3 head deck nad ever made ! i am looking to getting a nakamichi dragon ,probably the best deck ever made !
Is there a massive difference in the sound between the two machines ? or are they close to one another with not a extreme amount of difference ?
I am curious about what to expect when i find the nakamichi and it will affect how high i am willing to bid on it i see them go from 800 to 2000 and wanted to know how much i am going to be getting
Thanks
 
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I've never owned a Dragon but I did own a CR-7a...fantastic machine...and the Dragon is supposed to be better. I think $2000 for a Dragon, unless it's been totally restored/rebuilt, is a bit high.
 
Find a Dragon at a reasonable price and send it to Willy Herman for a rebuild. Mine was rebuilt several years ago by Willy. You can't go wrong.
 
A Dragon will give you far more control over your recordings than the 6300. Though the 6300 appears to be a nice deck, it doesn't seem to have much tunabilty to it, other than tape bias. Not only that but the Dragon has the automatic playback azimuth that is constantly tweeking for best performance.
 
The NAD company was known for making relatively good sounding devices for the money you paid for them.
But to increase the number of customers they saved money in the construction whereever possible, tryin not to degrade the sq.

This means that all NAD are build to a huge compromise, it feels (and is) very "plastical", the eject is prone to break easily as are other details.

On the plus side, the 6300 has Tandbergs fantastic Dyneq and sounds really good .......... if still in working condition.
 
Ultralyd said:
The NAD company was known for making relatively good sounding devices for the money you paid for them.
But to increase the number of customers they saved money in the construction whereever possible, tryin not to degrade the sq.

This means that all NAD are build to a huge compromise, it feels (and is) very "plastical", the eject is prone to break easily as are other details.

On the plus side, the 6300 has Tandbergs fantastic Dyneq and sounds really good .......... if still in working condition.
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I beg to differ. I own a mint 6300, and there's no evidence of these supposed huge compromises, either in build quality or sound. This was not an inexpensive deck when new, with an MSRP of about $900 if I recall directly. There's the same Sankyo transport inside that's used in Nak CR4, along with the Tandberg DynEq and HXPro. Now that said, I wouldn't even consider comparing it to a Dragon, as the OP suggests.
 
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