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In Reply to: RE: 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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Hi Dave,
You know, I hadn't even considered that. Maybe the caps need a chance to come back to life or something. Chances are it hadn't been used in a while. The tray belt had given up, and there were 6 discs still in the player when I got it. Ready for a laugh?
UB40 - Promises and Lies
Huey Lewis and The News - Four Chrods & Several Years Ago
10,000 Maniacs - MTV Unplugged
Clannad Cran Ull
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Actually, the Norah Jones is a damn well recorded album and is useful as a test CD.
I still don't get why the MSB adjust has such an audible effect and why it now seems to want to be turned all the way CCW before obvious artifacts go away, but who knows. I'll let this thing cook for a day or two.
Anyone ever retrofit a Coaxial digital out to a player before?
I had assumed that vintage gear was already broken in, but have had a few pieces that needed to burn in before they sounded good. It could be because they sit for a while.
Those would be the right CDs for the era. I'll bet your Nak sat for a while.
I resisted listening to Nora Jones for a while. When I finally did, I found I liked her. I must be getting old!
Dave
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