‘Golden Ears’ cables.. 1970s ! I need to have my B215 revamped like your Nak. Nice system. SA 90’s were my tape of choice in the day. Still have most of all my recorded tapes still.
Calm down in the valley in Oregon, but have a friend that lives up in Seattle, and he said it was quite the weekend up there as you mentioned Taylor Swift, The Bite of Seattle, Capital Hill Block Party, and a Mariners game as well. Busy, busy!!
That McIntosh Poweramp reminds me the day I found a local audio store.. it was summer 1989, I walked in to have a look and it felt only rich people could go in. And I saw their demo room.. an amp similar to this and a set of XRT22s. The salesman even went so far as to plug in bare wires from a stripped power chord and plugged them into the 120v socket! 60hz hum from the wall. Disconnected it and reconnected the amp.. and just played some classical music. The following day my buddy and I were downtown half in the bag, we bought Led Zeppelin 4. It was almost 9pm but he let us in. And I put the cd on the system..and not loud. He came in and said, no! You need more volume. And cranked it I never heard sound like that and that loud, so clear. It blew me away. And I never experienced that again. We both left like we heard God. Sadly, I m not likely to ever find a set of XRT22s.. but I do wish for them.
Man, you are going to make me break out my Nak RX-505. I have a ton of tapes Metal, chrome, normal. The one item I’m actually surprised that isn’t in your system yet is a Reel to Reel Deck. You took me down memory lane with the comparisons and the recordings. I use to flip my monitor button from on to off for comparison to the original source. The blanks if you are buying metal and chrome tapes have jumped in price tremendously due to lack of supply. I always loved listening to the sound from on the different tape formulations. My CD player is the Audio Research CD MKII and I love it. Your channel wouldn’t be complete without that gorgeous view!!!
Hey Sid! Thanks for your continued support. Your RX-505 is really sought after nowadays. Finding a tech to work on/refresh these, is getting harder by the day. My CR-7A is my preferred source to listen to now. Reel to Reel is just to stupid expensive to dive into at this time. Thanks for watching brother! 🙌🏻
Thanks for bringing the memories of that era when we transferred the music from vinyl to cassetts to use with portable players and home cassette players. Any chance you can do same, mean make an recording from vinyl to cassette? This would make pure analogue bliss at the end. As always, great video!
hey vc ,this is a nice piece hifi artwork, as i live in switzerland we have a lot revox tapedecks here,i own reVox B 710 , but i am loocking forward to get my hands on a nakamichi i hope, btw i solve the grounding loop i had, it was the mt 2 turntable, it is now on his way to mcintosh for repairing, maybe i will upgrad to mt5 what you have, greetings klajess
Hey brother! Man, you've had some bad luck with the McIntosh stuff. I love my MT5 though. A big upgrade over the MT2. I am always rooting for your success! 👊💯🎼✨
I totally get that it's fun to play around with old technology like compact cassettes but thinking that it is (anywhere near) high fidelity is just wrong. A very narrow tape crawling at low speed over a static head results even with a topnotch deck in a lot of noise, loads of harmonics, limited frequency response at reasonable recording/playback levels and a channel separation of only 50dB measured with a simple single 1KHz tone. Then there is also tape saturation, linearity problems, flutter & wow off course. Dolby noise reduction systems are band-aids for the high noise but looking back nothing to write home about. Serious tape recording and playback is done on professional equipment with much wider tapes and higher speeds and even then there is always a lot of compromises. We have moved on for a reason. Oh, and "digital glare or harshness" are buzzwords from the beginning of digital recording techniques way back in time.
I'll keep listening to my cassette deck over my streamer, TT, CD player, all day. It's just that good. I'm talking about my Deck, not all decks. Thanks for watching Hadraai! 👌🎼✨
ECM 1 MK 11 Streamer: Has anyone ever come across the problem of the remote control having the mute & volume up & down not working. Or, the digital inputs not finding a signal. Or the units first use, having the volume at 100 fresh out of the box ?
I've never tried the II. However on mine, doing a master reset & reloading the software over the network seems to clear things out as new, maybe give that a try 👍
8:37 anyone tried this on a Laserdisc? I have cleaned my original Trilogy with warm water and wash liquid and it took forever and was extremely difficult to avoid the centre label getting wet.
ECM 1 MK 11 Streamer: Does any one know if this unit has an outomated tone compensation when the volume is adjusted? Like some preamps do to compensate for hearing losses of bass and treble as the volume is turned down !
@@srb4722 I've never heard of that ever, unless it has a loudness button? A true preamp is simply adding gain to the signal and should never impart any of its own influence on the music. Why the most expensive preamps simply "get out of the way". But that's just my experience in the past stores I've worked at, and my own equipment. Now with portable amps for headphones & IEMS, I have seen this, like the Ifi products. 👍🎼✨
@vpconcepts9838 Most preamps don't compensate without the button. However, some do, and even the salespeople don't know, unless they take the time to read the manuals, which many don't. As you know, when the volume of sound gets lowered, human ears lose sensitivity to high and low frequencies. Some rare preamps compensate for this accordingly. But it's important to have the amplifier output and speaker sensitivity matched, which includes room size. Home theatre systems use this too plus extra room correcting methods.
@srb4722 yes, in room correction, also the power supply in the electronics, slew rate, damping factor, etc...but without a loudness button or room correction-EQ applied, I have personally not seen it, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist, I just don't know of it. Best of luck in your search & thanks for watching!!👊🎼✨
Here's my last Nak video 👊🎼✨ th-cam.com/video/dK1Bp_yDWg0/w-d-xo.html 🎉Remember, You can still get 10% off all Kimber Kable products, with my promo code "VPCONCEPTS"
‘Golden Ears’ cables.. 1970s ! I need to have my B215 revamped like your Nak. Nice system. SA 90’s were my tape of choice in the day. Still have most of all my recorded tapes still.
Nice! 🙌🏻🎼✨
Love it when you review your system, never got tired when you were in Vegas, never tired now. Audio ecstasy.
Thanks Chris! 👋🏼🎼✨
Calm down in the valley in Oregon, but have a friend that lives up in Seattle, and he said it was quite the weekend up there as you mentioned Taylor Swift, The Bite of Seattle, Capital Hill Block Party, and a Mariners game as well. Busy, busy!!
True story! Thanks for watching!
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Love listening to it, super nice Paul!
Thank you! 👍🎼💯✨
Love these videos. Nak and Electro what a combination:)
Thanks brother. It's hard getting a good audio recording on TH-cam. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
😉👍🎼💯✨
I love my Dragon, bought it new and love it
A lucky Dragon owner! Very nice.
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That McIntosh Poweramp reminds me the day I found a local audio store.. it was summer 1989, I walked in to have a look and it felt only rich people could go in. And I saw their demo room.. an amp similar to this and a set of XRT22s. The salesman even went so far as to plug in bare wires from a stripped power chord and plugged them into the 120v socket! 60hz hum from the wall. Disconnected it and reconnected the amp.. and just played some classical music.
The following day my buddy and I were downtown half in the bag, we bought Led Zeppelin 4. It was almost 9pm but he let us in. And I put the cd on the system..and not loud. He came in and said, no! You need more volume. And cranked it
I never heard sound like that and that loud, so clear. It blew me away. And I never experienced that again. We both left like we heard God. Sadly, I m not likely to ever find a set of XRT22s.. but I do wish for them.
I love stories like this one. Thanks for keeping the hobby alive Greg! 👊💯🎼✨
Great videos, sound, and the view .
🙏🏻🎼💯✨
Man, you are going to make me break out my Nak RX-505. I have a ton of tapes Metal, chrome, normal. The one item I’m actually surprised that isn’t in your system yet is a Reel to Reel Deck. You took me down memory lane with the comparisons and the recordings.
I use to flip my monitor button from on to off for comparison to the original source. The blanks if you are buying metal and chrome tapes have jumped in price tremendously due to lack of supply. I always loved listening to the sound from on the different tape formulations. My CD player is the Audio Research CD MKII and I love it. Your channel wouldn’t be complete without that gorgeous view!!!
Hey Sid! Thanks for your continued support. Your RX-505 is really sought after nowadays. Finding a tech to work on/refresh these, is getting harder by the day. My CR-7A is my preferred source to listen to now. Reel to Reel is just to stupid expensive to dive into at this time. Thanks for watching brother! 🙌🏻
Plus very nice vintage meets modern aesthetics!
Hi Larry 😉👊💯🎼✨
Great video and description.
Thanks for bringing the memories of that era when we transferred the music from vinyl to cassetts to use with portable players and home cassette players. Any chance you can do same, mean make an recording from vinyl to cassette? This would make pure analogue bliss at the end. As always, great video!
If I had a record that wouldn't get me demonetized 🤣...thanks for watching!
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Interesting videio. Very informatve. One thechical issue. It looks like the the video recording is versaturated.
🙋♂️THANKS VP, for sharing July … sorry, but I don’t do Instagram 🤷♂️
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IMHHO,SOUNDS GREAT 👍 MONEY 💰 WELL SPENT, AND YOU WILL BE ABLE TO ENJOY IT FOR YEARS TO COME 🤗💚💚💚
hey vc ,this is a nice piece hifi artwork, as i live in switzerland we have a lot revox tapedecks here,i own reVox B 710 ,
but i am loocking forward to get my hands on a nakamichi i hope, btw i solve the grounding loop i had, it was the mt 2 turntable,
it is now on his way to mcintosh for repairing, maybe i will upgrad to mt5 what you have, greetings klajess
Hey brother! Man, you've had some bad luck with the McIntosh stuff. I love my MT5 though. A big upgrade over the MT2. I am always rooting for your success! 👊💯🎼✨
@@vpconcepts9838 TY my friend, we share same hobby
And the same Earth 👌🌏🎼✨
@@vpconcepts9838 btw i made a video Audio Cassette Typ I,II,III,IV testing ,witch one sounds the best ? th-cam.com/video/NYjxvVlxTj8/w-d-xo.html
I totally get that it's fun to play around with old technology like compact cassettes but thinking that it is (anywhere near) high fidelity is just wrong. A very narrow tape crawling at low speed over a static head results even with a topnotch deck in a lot of noise, loads of harmonics, limited frequency response at reasonable recording/playback levels and a channel separation of only 50dB measured with a simple single 1KHz tone. Then there is also tape saturation, linearity problems, flutter & wow off course. Dolby noise reduction systems are band-aids for the high noise but looking back nothing to write home about. Serious tape recording and playback is done on professional equipment with much wider tapes and higher speeds and even then there is always a lot of compromises. We have moved on for a reason. Oh, and "digital glare or harshness" are buzzwords from the beginning of digital recording techniques way back in time.
I'll keep listening to my cassette deck over my streamer, TT, CD player, all day. It's just that good. I'm talking about my Deck, not all decks. Thanks for watching Hadraai!
👌🎼✨
ECM 1 MK 11 Streamer:
Has anyone ever come across the problem of the remote control having the mute & volume up & down not working.
Or, the digital inputs not finding a signal.
Or the units first use, having the volume at 100 fresh out of the box ?
I've never tried the II. However on mine, doing a master reset & reloading the software over the network seems to clear things out as new, maybe give that a try 👍
@vpconcepts9838 👍 thanks. I'll try that.
Just curious- how does the tape sound compare to the vinyl?
Thanks for watching Ajay! 👍🎼✨
th-cam.com/video/pJO6S-s5gbM/w-d-xo.html
8:37 anyone tried this on a Laserdisc? I have cleaned my original Trilogy with warm water and wash liquid and it took forever and was extremely difficult to avoid the centre label getting wet.
It says for Laserdisc right on the box.
Thanks for watching Jeff! 👍💯🎼✨
ECM 1 MK 11 Streamer:
Does any one know if this unit has an outomated tone compensation when the volume is adjusted? Like some preamps do to compensate for hearing losses of bass and treble as the volume is turned down !
I use it as a DAC. The times I've adjusted volume, it just lowers the gain & gets quieter.
@@vpconcepts9838 Any idea if any of the preamps compensate the tone as the volume dial gets lowered.
(My vary old Naim preamp does)
@@srb4722 I've never heard of that ever, unless it has a loudness button? A true preamp is simply adding gain to the signal and should never impart any of its own influence on the music. Why the most expensive preamps simply "get out of the way". But that's just my experience in the past stores I've worked at, and my own equipment. Now with portable amps for headphones & IEMS, I have seen this, like the Ifi products. 👍🎼✨
@vpconcepts9838 Most preamps don't compensate without the button. However, some do, and even the salespeople don't know, unless they take the time to read the manuals, which many don't. As you know, when the volume of sound gets lowered, human ears lose sensitivity to high and low frequencies. Some rare preamps compensate for this accordingly. But it's important to have the amplifier output and speaker sensitivity matched, which includes room size.
Home theatre systems use this too plus extra room correcting methods.
@srb4722 yes, in room correction, also the power supply in the electronics, slew rate, damping factor, etc...but without a loudness button or room correction-EQ applied, I have personally not seen it, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist, I just don't know of it. Best of luck in your search & thanks for watching!!👊🎼✨
Here's my last Nak video 👊🎼✨
th-cam.com/video/dK1Bp_yDWg0/w-d-xo.html
🎉Remember, You can still get 10% off all Kimber Kable products, with my promo code "VPCONCEPTS"
How about a fuse upgrade for the Nak??
Thought about it! It's got like 6!!! But I really did want the vintage sound, so I kept her stock.
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Sky fi Audio
What about them? 👌