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[Rycher]

[Mitica]

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[Rycher]

Apropos de discuţia noastră referitor la faptul că am spus că un un deck foarte bun depăşeşte cu o casetă metal sau cu o casetă originală un cd player high-end, iată un review pentru Naka CR-7E, din HI-FI World:

Replay of pre-recordeds is a revelation - if they're decent all-analogue copies they'll trounce even a modern high end CD player. In fact, the Nak's resolution far exceeds CDs - to fully hear what it's capable of you need live recordings or a high end vinyl source.

http://www.hi-fiworld.co.uk/hfw/oldeworldehtml/nakamichicr7e.html

Să nu uităm că unele deck-uri duc o casetă metal la 25 kHz.

[Yokozuna]

Rycher, link-ul tau nu duce la ceva despre Nak. Esti amabil sa-l verifici, te rog?

[Rycher]

L-am verificat. Într-adevăr, probabil au mutat review-ul...
Ăsta era:


GET THE NAK
The very best cassette deck ever made? You'd have to look long and hard to better the Nakamichi CR-7E, says David Price.

When you meet someone at a party or down the pub and get talking about hi-fi, here's a great way to find out just how well they know the subject: If they reckon Nakamichis are the best cassette decks ever made, they know something. If they say the Dragon is the best, they think they know a lot. If they say it's the CR-7E, they really do. You see, the Dragon - wonderful, mad creation that it is - isn't actually the best thing the legendary Nipponese cassette masters did. It's a big, bold, lavish technological tour-de-force, that's for sure - but it was never their last word in terms of sound quality. That accolade went to the ZX-9, and then the CR-7E came along with better record/ replay electronics and sounded even better still.
The Dragon isn't a one-off product. In Japan, Nakamichi have traditionally been known as cassette deck specialists, but actually produce a whole range of audio electronics - from receivers to CD players - most of which is pretty unremarkable stuff. Commonly available in Japanese hi-fi shops at prices some 40% lower than over here, it's seen as good, solid, respectable fare - quite like Audiolab used to be known here. To differentiate their high end 'statement' products they market a range of gear under the Dragon brand, including CD players and amps. It's madly expensive, complex and packed with high tech. In 1988 though, Nakamichi decided that all their conspicuous technology used in the Dragon could be refocused towards getting the very best sound with absolutely no compromises. Out went mind-bogglingly complex auto-reverse mechanism with automatic electronic azimuth adjustment, and in came a beautifully engineered direct-drive, dual capstan unidirectional transport automated for convenience and given remote control too. less than its flagship bigger brother, but sounded even more stunning. Its feature list is Spartan by comparison - the usual logic controlled transport keys in the middle, with fader up, down and REC MUTE buttons beneath. Counter mode selectors and timer controls made a token gesture towards domestic acceptability, and then there was the manual tape sector (for types I, II and IV cassettes) with switchable EQ. For the first time on a Nakamichi though, these weren't strictly necessary as the CR-7E could also chose tape types automatically if desired. Adjustable playback azimuth - a grand name for what NAD modestly call PLAY TRIM - meant the '7's record/replay head could be motor-adjusted by up to two- thirds of a degree to play tapes recorded on lesser decks to their best potential. There was switchable Dolby NR (B and C, but as per Nak tradition, no HX or S). You also got an amazing set of meters with switchable PEAK HOLD - and the claim that they read up to +10dB was no idle boast! Although Nakamichi's rivals had offered auto tape calibration for many a long year, Nak debuted theirs with the CR-7E. It was simple to use - you just loaded a blank tape, pressed AUTO CALIBRATION, a light flashed for fifteen seconds and you were ready to record. Sound quality is startling - better than every other cassette deck in the world bar none; it even gives high quality semi-pro open reels (like Revox's B77) a sharp slap around the face. With a decent metal tape, you can casually record at +10dB, such are the Nak's stunning discrete heads, and even beer-budget ferrics sound better than anyone else's cassette deck running the most expensive metals. Pitch stability, dynamics, depth perspective, noise levels - everything - is superb. Replay of pre-recordeds is a revelation - if they're decent all-analogue copies they'll trounce even a modern high end CD player. In fact, the Nak's resolution far exceeds CDs - to fully hear what it's capable of you need live recordings or a high end vinyl source.

[Yokozuna]

Rycher, multumesc.

[Yokozuna]

Rycher:

"Adjustable playback azimuth - a grand name for what NAD modestly call PLAY TRIM - meant the '7's record/replay head could be motor-adjusted by up to two- thirds of a degree to play tapes recorded on lesser decks to their best potential."

Am pe birou un NAD 6340, cu PLAY TRIM, si este un corector de ton Baxendall, realizat cu LA6458SS, nu un reglaj de azimuth. Am manualul de service in pdf, daca-l doresti, sau il gasesti pe hifiengine, pus de mine.

Cu un intrefier al capului de PLB de 0.9 micrometri nu este prea greu sa obtii o banda de frecventa atat de extinsa.
In rest, o electronica optimizata la maxim, fara artificiile din AKAI GX.