>>Nakamichi was so into the craft in those days, not 'lifestyle' electronics that they went into.
i lost all interest in their new direction. the cassette days obviously died with the cd era, but i still love some of those tape recordings
>>I bought a 505 - that 3 head deck that flips your tape around. It was cool and still works great. I used to sell the stuff and we could buy Nak stuff direct for 40% of the retail price (after passing your Nakamich product knowledge test!)
ahh, those uni-directional auto reverse decks were quite innovative for their time. the 505 is a great machine from what i've seen.
i bought my first Nak deck in '86/'87 or so. it was the TD-500, which was a car Tuner/Deck w/ manual azimuth alignment!! i paid a small fortune for that damn tape deck and then i upgraded it to the TD-700 (basically the same deck with search functions). the CR-3A was my first 3 head home deck which i quicky upgraded to a CR-7A few years later. love those old Naks!!
marc