Hello Richard,

Thank you very much for the information and the links!

There is so much knowledge on this list and I learn something everyday from this list. And I'm not new :) lol

Happy New Year and thank you!

Brian
On Jan 2, 2012, at 9:40 AM, Richard L. Hess wrote:

> Hi, Brian,
> 
> Happy New Year to you and the list!
> 
> I have six Dragons that I use in my tape digitization practice.
> 
> They are great, but I wish at times I could do manual azimuth adjustment.
> 
> Someday I will try out a mod I designed and see how well it works to add azimuth readout and a manual adjustment OPTION to a Dragon. It is a big mod to the logic board and would probably take some tweaking. The readout would read in auto or manual...and I think I can implement a HOLD function (set azimuth auto and then hold that). It's all electronic (no mechanical mods).
> 
> But, until then, many people on this list are more than happy with the CR7(a e whatever).
> 
> There are other lower-cost Naks that have manual azimuth adjustment. Look at NAKS.COM for info.
> 
> Also, there are two posts at www.richardhess.com/notes/ concerning the Nakamichi equalization "issue".
> 
> http://richardhess.com/notes/2006/05/17/cassette-equalization-the-4-db-ambiguity-at-16-khz/
> http://richardhess.com/notes/2010/10/08/cassette-equalization-redo/
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 
> On 2012-01-01 7:00 PM, Brian Foraker wrote:
>> First Happy New Year to all.
>> 
>> I'm looking for advice on a cassette deck to transfer a large collection of concert recordings that I've made over the years. I was a live engineer for many years and I have quite a few cassettes. These are not for sale just in need of transfer to preserve them.
>> 
>> I recorded most of these on Sony DCD-5 or Nakamichi 550. I still have the Sony.
>> 
>> I was thinking either a Nakamichi Dragon or something along those lines.
>> 
>> Any recommendations are greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you!
>> 
>> Brian Foraker
> 
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