Re: [ARSCLIST] Nakamichi BX 1 Tape Deck

[Dave Meyers <audio101@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The BX-1 is the consumer version of a MR-1 very good deck! Buy it at 25 if
it will pull tape!


Dave

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Subject: [ARSCLIST] Nakamichi BX 1 Tape Deck


Hey...I found a Nakamichi BX-1 Cassette Deck in a resale shop the other day
at the nice price of $25 and have been looking for an upgrade of my Fischer
Double Deck before I pull out a huge box of old Cassettes of various live
bands I recorded/played with years ago.  I'm looking to do digital transfers
and know that some of the finest decks around are made by Nakamichi.

The casing is black, but it has no manual or other documentation as to how
old it is.  The deck looks to be in very good shape.  It's clean, very
little wear or dirt from handling, almost no dings or scratches.  I looked
into the cassette well and it was very clean, with almost none of the dust
you would expect to flake out over the years.  The Play and Record heads
looked clean with no gunk and very light wear.  The rubber rollers looked a
bit faded or dry.  The RCA plugs also looked pretty nice with none of the
wear you would find had the plugs been scraping from repeated removals.

I can't do much more to check it out unless I buy it.  I'll put a tape in to
see that it moves and hopefully be able to hook it to another stereo in the
shop to see how it sounds.  Any advice on how well this model was built,
when it was in production, how much I might have to expect in repair costs
or other "Cheap & Dirty" diagnostic tricks I can use to see if the pitch is
correct, etc.  Thanks.  Randy