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Here is a vintage Nakamichi RX-505 cassettes deck that works great. The belts were just replaced and the idler wheel is in great shape. The unit was cleaned inside including greasing the carriage tracks for the cassette eject mechanism.

Auto-Reverse Three Head Cassette Deck (1984-93)

Description

• View and Download Nakamichi RX-505 owner's manual online. Unidirectional auto reverse cassette decck. RX-505 cassette player pdf manual download.
• Also, please do not mention Nakamichi not incuding Dolby S, HX Pro, and DBX in the RX-505. The RX-505, along with all other Nakamichi decks, does not need the help of these tachnologies to achieve it's objective of superior freqency repsonse. Those Noise reduction chips are reserved for inferior decks with inferior head design!

To Nakamichi, 3-Head always means three discrete heads, physically independent record, playback and erase heads that are perfectly optimized and critically aligned in magnetic azimuth to ensure flat response to beyond 20 KHz and optimum MOL.

Specifications

Nakamichi Rx 505 Manual Review

Type: auto reverse, 3-head, single compact cassette deck

Track System: 4-track, 2-channel stereo

Tape Speed: 4.8 cm/s

Heads: 1 x record, 1 x playback, 1 x erase

Motor: 1 x reel, 1 x capstan, 2 x mechanism

Tape Type: type I, CrO2, Metal

Noise Reduction: B, C

Frequency Response: 20Hz to 20kHz (Metal tape)

Signal to Noise Ratio: 70dB (dolby C)

Wow and Flutter: 0.04%

Total Harmonic Distortion: 0.9%

Input: 50mV (line)

Output: 1V (line)

Dimensions: 450 x 144 x 300mm

Weight: 10kg

Year: 1984

Price: GBP £1000 (1990)

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Reviewed Sep 09th, 2018 by windywatchguy

I couldn't afford one of these when stationed in the Philippines in 1984-1986, but I lusted after them. A friend of mine bought the rx303, and just watching the tape flip was more entertaining than most of the TV we had access to. The sound was very nice, but after buying a very nice 2nd owner 505, I am much more impressed with the sound and functions. My roommate in the Philippines actually owned a Dragon that he played through a small boombox...I know. From my experience, the 505 is the equal, sonic-ally, of the Dragon without the maintenance hassles. And the visually amazing auto reverse....amazing.

Reviewed Dec 28th, 2014 by RTM

One of only a handful of models that get auto-reverse right. Like the Dragon, it's in a category pretty much by itself. I'm a huge fan of Pioneer Decks and many of them compete successfully with many of Nak's offerings. But the fact remains that Nak was the target that Pioneer had to aim for and (usually) not the other way around. With the exception of the orange cap syndrome, Naks also seem to hold up without major restoration issues longer than many of their competitors. YMMV.

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Nakamichi Rx 505 Manual Instructions