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That Nak deck may very well be the most physically attractive tape deck of all time. The only exception to me owning the "best of the best" with respect to cassette decks was the Nak 1000 ZXL and its gold big brother. I stayed away from those because it was hard to find qualified Techs to work on them, and they were a bit overpriced. I sold my Tandberg 3014a when it went dead (long before my big sale), but heck got $1000 for the non-working Tandberg.Those are some pretty nice pieces of gear. I serviced cassette decks for some years and found the upper end models to be very cool to work on. R2Rs I never got into just mainly cassette decks. In 15 years of component level mechatronics service I was only stumped by one Nakamichi. It was stacked full of tightly spaced vertical daughter boards and would have been a nightmare to service without service literature. So I returned it and advised to send it to Nakamichi. I think going off memory that it was this one or a very similar model in this rather nice blingy gold colored finish. Some days I miss the repair and calibration success of high end cassette decks even still.