Comparison with the world best cassette decks Nakamichi 1000ZXL Dragon, Revox B710 MKII and Pioneer T770s and T1000S

Comparison in Price 

Highest to lowest Naka 1000ZXL, Dragon, Revox B710MK II, Pioneer T1000S, Pioneer T770S

Sound performance

Nakamichi 1000 ZXL, Pioneer T1000S, Dragon, Revox B710-MK II, Pioneer T770S

Outlook

Best is Nakamichi 1000 ZXL, Dragon, Revox B710 MK II, Pioneer T1000S

Price 

Highest to lowest Nakamichi 1000 ZXL, Revox B710MK II, Dragon, Pioneer T1000S, Pioneer T770S

Ease of use

Dragon (with Remote control), Pioneer T1000S auto door open close, T770S (same operation as T1000S), Revox B710MK II, Nakamichi 1000ZXL

Difference between Pioneer T1000S and T770S is same in operation, but the internal construction and use of electronics components is T1000S better than the T770s, T1000 is using a lot of honeycomb copper base plate and isolation plate.

Comparison with Dragon and Pioneer T1000S

Dragon is 3 motors direct drive, T1000 is 3 motors belt driven

Dragon Frequency response is 20-22KHZ Vs Pioneer is 20-30KHZ both on metal tapes

Wow and Flutter Dragon is 0.04% Vs Pioneer is 0.022%

THD of dragon is 0.8% VS Pioneer is 0.6% 

weight of Dragon is 9.5Kg, Vs Pioneer T1000 is 8.6Kg

Proce of Dragon on 1983-1995 was DM 4,150 to 4500 Vs Pioneer was only DM 2200 in 1993

Two Big Audio magazine nominated Pioneer T1000S as the Reference Cassette deck as the only one.

In Short Pioneer T1000S is better in performance than Dragon. 

But few people know about it and Dragon has been in the market for 13 years and was famous and its price is 2 times higher than Pioneer, so most people think Dragon is better deck than Pioneer T1000S.

This is purely my personal experience on this only, all are great decks.

I think price will be up tomorrow.

HK Snob

 

New found long lost Hi Fi fun: Cassette tape

 recently by occasion, I bought a Nakamichi 1000ZXL, wow, to my surprise, it is better than all my CD system in terms of music reproduction liveness, transparency and fun. Many people says that isn't true, well, to my friend who is in love with cassette knows it. Until you try you know.

to me Vinyl is 100%, Cassette is 90% and CD is 80% only.

Well, only open reel system I have no experience so it is not included in the comparison. I know is is on top of vinyl. But I don't know if there is enough recorded tape for me to puchase.

HK Snob

Nakamichi 1000ZXL computing cassette tape deck

咗套Critical Mass Systems 嘅Centre Stage釘腳落部中道 Nakamichi 1000ZXL 度，果然低音實在左! 聽”A fistful of dollars & “for a few dollars more”.

第一面嘅”almost dead”那種口哨聲咁淒涼寂寞嘅感覺聽到都毛骨悚然。

第二面 之經典名曲，果然即是非偶然，結他結象輪廓清晰，第一下大鼓低音打出嚟嚇得人彈起身，令人不知所措，人聲更加有肉感，口哨聲更加動聽, 有啲口水花彈到我個面上，攞紙巾都攞唔切。

$9000四隻釘腳係值得囉！旺角輝煌音響有售再上一級嘅$20,000吾知有冇得借….借嚟聴下呢？

HK Snob
 

Nakamichi 1000ZXL Computing cassette deck

讀書年代, 放暑假同同學去尖沙咀漆咸道愛群無線電行聽當時這部中道嘅卡式機旗艦1000Z X L，當時覺得你聲音真係太美妙，面板好多操控制，當然那一位銷售顧問好细心介紹這臺機器比我地，我望一望價錢$14,800我仲記得㗎唔使諗啦，當年一個大學畢業生月薪只不過$1400，一足一年人工先至買到呢部嘢，事隔40多年終於今日可以了一個情意結啦，抬佢番家!

HK Snob