![]() The legendary Nakamichi auto-reverse actually FLIPS the entire tape around while the heads and mechanism stay in place! A security etching on the back panel is one of the only clues this piece was pre-owned. A Hi-Fi Trip to Ipoh - Part 2 - ACOUSTIC SIGNATURE.If you're in the market for a cassette deck, you'll flip over this one.Chasing A Childhood Dream, Nakamichi DR-2 Cassette.A Hi-Fi Trip to Ipoh - Part 3 - KUZMA / AUDIO RESE.The internals of the Nakamichi DR-2 cassette deck shows much attention to detail. And no, for some reason Nakamichi didn't see fit to give gold plated RCA sockets either! The internal build quality is typical 80's -90's Japanese thru hole PCB type for easy repair. You can see from the naked photo below, the power supply transformer is over sized and has more than a few regulator circuits in a separate PCB from the audio section on the left. This gives the DR-2 very low wow & flutter during playback as direct result. Nakamichi believes this pressure pad contribute to variable sound quality as each tape is using different material and density for the pad! Nakamichi was very confident that their dual capstan transport drive was powerful and accurate enough to give proper & constant pressure to the tape in contact with tape head, that the pressure pad was no longer needed during playback. What's this you ask? If you look at the cassette on the side with the exposed tape holes, you'll find a sponge like pad in the middle as the tape head contact area. Also new in this generation of Nakamichi is the pressure pad lifter system. The 3 motor design, incorporating idler wheel for tape spool is very complicated and the transport design is multi layered. The 3 head, 3 motor, dual capstan transport is originally developed by Nakamichi in the 70's and first appeared on the 1000ZXL model.Īs with any Nakamichi, the tape transport is an in house design, and not one of those standard of the shelf Sankyo solutions used by many other manufacturers. Those are just some of the best tape decks ever produced by Nakamichi, not forgetting to mention the RX-505 which was an auto reverse playback stunner, but as a recorder, not so great. ![]() Well, it certainly was no Dragon, or the 1000ZXL or the ZX-9, BX-300(a.k.a. In the Nakamichi scheme of things, the DR-2 wasn't considered particularly high end either. The DR series comes after the well loved CR series from the 80's. This Nakamichi is a 90's product, made from 1992 till 1996. It had all the right specs I wanted in a cassette deck, like 3 heads(a must), 3 motor, dual capstan transport design, illuminated cassette compartment and if possible a remote control! Dolby S never featured highly on my wish list, as B & C was more then enough for noise reduction. The rear panel and chassis bottom is double layered!Īnd so here I am, a proud owner of a Nakamichi DR-2. The simple line in and output RCAs typical of a cassette deck. I was a happy bunny until I saw this Nakamichi DR-2 on a local hifi classifieds, which I told my self, it's now or never. My recent refurbished Teac had gave me hours of fun, rekindling with the cassette format. For more than 30 years, that Teac 3 head cassette deck had served me well. I could never bring myself to afford one and eventually settled on the Teac V-670 that I wrote about sometime ago.
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