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From: bob@anwar.UUCP (Bob Erickson)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Cassete Decks - My Nakamichi Story
Message-ID: <141@anwar.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 21:00:50 EST
Article-I.D.: anwar.141
Posted: Thu Feb 28 21:00:50 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 06:08:11 EST
Organization: HHB-Softron, Mahwah, NJ
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Well I bought a Nakamichi for the `quality' too.  I got
the low end BX-150.  I quickly noticed a strange pinging in the
sound of some of the music I had recorded.  Looking at the
physical tape mechanism showed a consistent clicking in the
motion of the takeup hup.

Convincing my audio salesmen there was a problem was the hard part.
Finally he believed and it ended up going through repair 2 times.
The first time they claimed it needed 'lubrication', which they did.
Which did nothing to solve the problem.  Upon a second closer examination
they found that the takeup hub drive edge had a nub on it left over from
the injection molding process used to create the part.  Filing it down
solved that problem.

Hard to believe Nak would let something like that go by.

The second failure was a little easier to show my salesmen.
The high precision drive motor decided to burn out completely.
The deck was only a few weeks old.  At least they repaired it
the first time, replacing the entire drive motor.

When its running, the deck sounds great.  I hope my problems
are simply a freak of nature, and not a lowering of quality
standards at Nak.


 
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