Bottlehead Forum
Other Gear => Reel to Reel Tape => Topic started by: xcortes on January 10, 2014, 05:49:52 AM
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Small reel to reel encased in a plastic box. AKA cassette. My brand new ESL rebuilt Nak 1000 ZXL limited edition.
Actually the drug dealer gold plating doesn't look cheesy in person.
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Actually the drug dealer gold plating doesn't look cheesy in person.
The pinky ring of cassette decks.
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I sold Nakamichi back when the first of the 1000 series came out. They were the smoothest of any cassette out there. Kind of like a Crown of Cassettes.
I saved the picture and zoomed in. Is the Bottlehead preamp on top for the 1000 or the RTR?
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It's for the rtr
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Tested it yesterday. Amazingly smooth transport and a very smooth sound. It sounds nothing like transistors. I can't detect any edginess. There's a new crop of Sony metal tapes that Jeff from esl tested on this deck and excellent. $3 each. A couple of years back a metal cassete wiod cost maybe 30 times more on ebay. Apparently the only thing where cassette tapes surpassed rtr was on the formulations. Millions invested in r&d.
I'll try taping today.
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I had my 700 II set up for Maxell UDXL II. I had a boat load of it when I was using the deck. It had a really good high frequency response.