Your discription sounds like the 700XLE. Nak made it in that timeframe and followed it up with a 700XLE Mark II with exactly the same comestics. Very big and long vertical box that was wider than 18". Not rack friendly, but was meant to displayed and admired! Great sounding machines for the time. I owned several Naks including the 1000. Never had reliability problems, but I had them serviced yearly. Actally, these tapes decks saved my vinyl collection as I would tape every new record for my wife and she would play the cassettes. have fun, but I would worry about the heads being worn, pitted or groved from too much playing. Maybe hard or costly to replace.
Help ID nakamichi tape deck
hey... i'm trying to identify a gigantic nakamichi cassette deck my father had around '83. if i remember correctly it was about 9 inches tall and had a mostly silver face with a black bottom (or vice versa?). there were no (or very few) buttons available to you unless you pushed a portion of the bottom piece and then that piece would sort of open up a la the doors of the old long-gone lime green briklin my father also had (i'm just realizing now dad was a swinger). anyway, after the bottom piece opened up you'd find all kinds of knobs and buttons. this is all from memory so i could be missing something major.
it's not the dragon, btw. the face place was solid and the colors were silver and black: that's really the extent of my knowledge.
as always, thanks everyone in advance!
it's not the dragon, btw. the face place was solid and the colors were silver and black: that's really the extent of my knowledge.
as always, thanks everyone in advance!