Topic: Old Nak 700 plexiglass housing mod....

[shaggy]

Does anyone know about this set up that was essentially a Nak CM700 shorty version (atten barrels) in a plexiglass housing.  Sort of PZMish in concept, ran in the early 80's usually into a DBX encoder?  I had some awesome audiences made with this set up and completely forgot about it until the recent Korby mod thread popped up.

[Nak700]

My notes would suggest that this would be James Olness and Jaimie Poris's rig. Modded Nak CM-700s > dBx 224 > Sony TC-D5M. Perhaps the most well circulated recording from this setup are the Frost Amphitheater shows from 10/09-10/82.

[shaggy]

Olness and Poris made totally sick tapes.  I have a 10/31/83 Marin Civic that just frickin' smokes.  Some others as well, my main source of auds back in the day were first/second gens from these guys.  Had to buy a DBX decoder to realize the full potential.  Now that I think about it, those tapes really sounded far superior to stuff that is getting transfered to the digital domain.  I wished more of their stuff circulated.