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RE: Framing the issue

I used to own two Nakamichi Dragon cassette recorders that I personally adjusted for optimum performance. I was an electronic technician with the necessary test equipment to optimize all the internal adjustments on my two Dragons, which really sounded exquisite. However, when I bought my first DAT, a Sony Walkman TCD-D3, it put the Dragons to shame. Within a couple of years I bought another Sony component DAT recorder and sold my two Dragons.

I originally bought a Sony TCD-D3 Walkman DAT recorder because I was tired of wow & flutter from Walkman cassette players and I liked to take my music with me on business trips. I decided I would rather put up with a little digital grunge in order to have pitch stability with my favorite piano pieces. The shock of my life came when I discovered that when I copied a vinyl LP there was no digital grunge at all. My DAT recordings sounded just like vinyl LPs with all the same "boogie factor" and pleasing analog sound quality. That is when I had no more use for my two beautiful Nakamichi Dragons, which I used only for copying vinyl.

Best regards,
John Elison


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