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Used contact cleaner on Nak BX-300; now broke
Thank you for the advice everyone! I have not done anything to the deck yet. I thought I would let it sit overnight and see what happens. So far the deck plays but it does so wobbly. The rewind does not work but it sounds like it wants to engage. ... 
Nakamichi Cassette deck question DR-3
I should have posted a followup long ago! The dial just needed a quick spray of contact cleaner. The deck has been running beautiful and can hold it's own with my BX-300! Seriously. 
SACD availability
Thank you all for your replies. On Elizabeths's comment: I do not believe any company would invest millions of dollars designing, implementing, marketing and distributing a product just to destroy a competitor's product. It just doesn't make good ... 
CD vs. Vinyl
"Because it is always harder to do anything really well." - MapmanNot always. As a designer, I always strive for ease of use and a great UI. If equipment is difficult to use, consumers gravitate to the competitors. Look at the success of Apple. Qu... 
CD vs. Vinyl
"Vinyl has the least compression vs any digital medium." -S23changYes, but if we also factor in artifacts and noise, the vinyl comes up short. Even when I deep clean my records, the clicks and pops are gone but the noise is always there without ex... 
CD vs. Vinyl
"Is this perhaps part of why many high end audio buffs are so pro vinyl and anti CD? Hundreds of dollars is certainly not high end, right?" - MapmanYou are arguing about preference and the discussion is about formats. People might prefer french fr... 
CD vs. Vinyl
This subject has been beaten to death! But it's still fun once in a while. Here are some advantages CD has over vinyl:* Portable audio - you can cart around your CD in a nice portable/try that with an LP!*Track access - you can jump from track to ... 
Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use?
I use a Denon CDR-W1500, which is a dual CD recording deck. The main thing I use it for is making excellent CD copies of vinyl records and other sources (tapes & radio). It has digital inputs and outputs (optical & coax) and has a 24bit DA... 
Newbie to DAC's
You don't need a DAC to do that...just a cable. The easy way would be to get a y cable from Radio Shack with L & R RCA connectors on one end and a headphone jack on the other. Plug the RCAs into the back of the receiver and the headphone jack ...