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RE: Nakamichi CD Player 3 - How do I make it useful?

Posted by Crazy Dave (A) on August 30, 2016 at 05:20:19

In Reply to: Nakamichi CD Player 3 - How do I make it useful? posted by Sherwood Forest on August 30, 2016 at 01:35:45:

I used to sell Nakamichi, but this one came out after I was out of the business. I can tell you that in their time, the Nakamichi CD players were considered to be very good sounding players. The reason I am posting is that I just bought an Onkyo C-7030 at a thrift store for $35. This is a current $200 CD player, and I was curious how is would sound compared to my vintage players. I hooked it to my Sennheiser HD-555 headphones and it sounded like dreck. On both rock and classical and rock it was lifeless and boring. I figured, oh-well, maybe they cheated out on the headphone amp. After all, it definitely is a "price-point" product, but I also thought that a company like Onkyo should be able to design a decent IC chip headphone amp on the cheap. I noticed 2 days later that I had neglected to turn it off, so I gave it a listen again. It was completely transformed. It was now punch and detailed. The image was big! "Experience Hendrix, the Best of Jimi Hendrix" had me standing up, singing along and playing air guitar! So my advice is to leave it on for a couple of days and see what happens.

Dave

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