Anyone here have a fairly authoritative atlas of Nakamichi 500 OEM versions?
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Apropos of nothing :-) The venerable Nakamichi 500 top load, two-head tape deck also appeared in slightly altered guises under multiple (perhaps many) brand names. The first one I knew of was the Sonab C500 deck. Quite different than the plain-vanilla 500, but I guess Nakamichi built it on the 500 platform.  I believe that the Yamaha TB-700 was a 500 variant: see http://www.vintagecassette.com/yamaha/tb_700 ... as well, perhaps, as the hk 1000 and/or hk 2000 cassette deck? see http://www.vintagecassette.com/harman_kardon/hk1000 ... and/or: http://www.vintagecassette.com/harman_kardon/hk2000 You may be wondering: What got me thinking about this today? Well, I happened to see a top-load Kenwood KX-910 cassette deck on... well... a popular on-line auction site... recently & it just kind of had that Nak 500 vibe goin' on, I thought.  Now, I realize (OK, I am pretty darned sure!) that not every top-load two-head deck ever made was 1) made by Nakamichi and/or 2) based on the 500 platform... but I did put me to wonderin' if anyone had, or could postulate, a list of Nakamichi 500-derived OEM decks sold by others under their own brand names? Thanks for your attention and consideration! DISCLAIMER: Needless to say, all of the images above are 'borrowed' ones. I cannot provide the link for the Kenwood due to AK forum rules... but it's easy enough to find ;-) As a postscript, I have also heard that Nakamichi built hk's very early hi-fi decks - hk models CAD-4, CAD-4a, and/or CAD-5... but I don't think these were 500-based. all the best, mrh
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