While I totally agree with everything written so far about Naks, from my experience the Revox was a nightmare. Spent more time on the bench than anywhere else. Kinda like Dangerfield's car. Also sonically nothing to write home about. Go for a Nak. Very reliable. Only of my 8 machines broke down. Shai Sent from my iPhoneto On 2 בינו 2012, at 20:08, Jim Atkins <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello Brian, > > I have both a Dragon and two CR7a's and I think each has > its place. If your tapes have enough high frequency content > (>3kHz), the Dragon's auto azimuth works well and saves > the time it will take to setup the CR7's manual azimuth. > Lower fidelity tapes may benefit from a manual azimuth > adjustment. > > FWIW, I think sonically the CR7 is SLIGHTLY better than > the Dragon, with the transport of the Dragon being slightly > better than the CR7's. > > You might want to look at the Studer A710 deck as well. It > does not have an azimuth adjustment but is also great with > good source material. > > If your tapes are Dolby encoded, you also have the choice of > using an external decoder. The old Dolby 330 (for B & C) is > great and the newer Dolby 422 (B, C & S) is very good. > Both outperform the built-in decoders. > > Cheers, > > -Jim