I told you about the hits I discovered as I went vinyl hunting this weekend...now, here's more about a miss.
Our St. Vincent DePaul - which I think is our only one - mainly deals in furniture, but occasionally they have other things, like a stray TV or organ. So I was kind of shocked to find a near-mint example of a very well-respected cassette deck there.
It's a Nakamichi 1000 II from the mid '70s. Audio fans will tell you Nakamichi was the king of cassette. And this, an update to one of the first decks they made under their own name, was one to be reckoned with. It boasted reel-to-reel sound quality and not two but
three heads - one each for erase, record and playback. Even today they still sound amazing.
This one had apparently been at St. Vincent for quite a while. Its price was marked down to $388 final sale from its original $1288 in August. And this one looked like a gem. To the right is the book that came with it. The book includes an owner's manual, a blank cassette, an alignment tape, and a mirror tape you use to help you clean.
I think if I hadn't gotten myself a PS3 for Christmas and had known about this deck earlier, I probably would have been bragging about it right now. Welp, I guess that's someone else's job.
