Nakamichi reviews

Nakamichi AV-1 AV-receiver review
AV-receiver Nakamichi AV-1

The AV-1 is Nakamichi's most powerful audio/video receiver. It contains an AM/FM digital frequency-synthesis tuner, a preamplifier, digital signal processing (DSP) circuits for simulating several acoustic environments, and five power amplifiers. The AV-1 has complete signal-switching facilities for selecting...
Nakamichi CR-3A Cassette Deck review
Cassette Deck Nakamichi CR-3A

Nakamichi bills the CR-3A as "the least expensive cassette deck that offers the three essentials of Nakamichi recording technology." Those essentials, as the company sees it, are the discrete three-head approach, in which azimuths of the recording and playback gaps are individually adjustable; the asymmetrical...
Nakamichi Dragon Cassette Deck review
Cassette Deck Nakamichi Dragon

When Nakamichi introduced the first three-head cassette deck, the original Model 1000, it included a system that enabled the user to align the azimuth of the recording head to that of the playback head, so that every cassette made on the machine would play back on it with the highest possible accuracy....
Nakamichi MB-2s CD-changer review
CD-changer Nakamichi MB-2s

The Nakamichi MB-2s uses neither a carousel nor a cartridge. Instead, it employs the company's proprietary Music Bank mechanism to swallow as many as seven discs. Inside, discs are loaded into a kind of elevator that raises and lowers them in relation to the disc transport. Each time you load a disc...