Especially when it means I can get a bargain like this - I've always wanted one:
Panasonic RX CT990
[ebay]180544911187[/ebay]
Panasonic RX CT990
[ebay]180544911187[/ebay]
I love wrongly titled eBay items!!!
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MasterBlaster84
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jaetee
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Great Score, CB!!!!
I hear you loud and clear... That's why it is smart to make sure you branch out with creative searches. Or, if you're looking for a specific box, to search for various incarnations of that model number or whatever... That's the best way to find the "serious" bargains on fleabay.
That's been part of my ebay strategy for years.
But, for your example, by pure definition I think thats actually quite a plausible category for that unit... (and just about any boombox, especially 3-piece units).
Now, this recent auction is an example of a major category mistake.... [ebay]250675604837[/ebay]
Yea..., that 3-head Nakamichi bargian is on it's way to me even as I'm typing this....! My Nak collection is starting to approach the size of my Boombox collection. Still waiting to find that $50 Nakamichi Dragon, Revox B215 or Tandberg 3014 listed under "bicyles" or "needlepoint supplies!"
I hear you loud and clear... That's why it is smart to make sure you branch out with creative searches. Or, if you're looking for a specific box, to search for various incarnations of that model number or whatever... That's the best way to find the "serious" bargains on fleabay.
That's been part of my ebay strategy for years.
But, for your example, by pure definition I think thats actually quite a plausible category for that unit... (and just about any boombox, especially 3-piece units).
Now, this recent auction is an example of a major category mistake.... [ebay]250675604837[/ebay]
Yea..., that 3-head Nakamichi bargian is on it's way to me even as I'm typing this....! My Nak collection is starting to approach the size of my Boombox collection. Still waiting to find that $50 Nakamichi Dragon, Revox B215 or Tandberg 3014 listed under "bicyles" or "needlepoint supplies!"
You still going with the older Naks?
Why not save for a 5 or a 7?
(this one is OVER priced - the 7 is worth 4-500 tops - the 5 is a cheaped up 7!)
[ebay]220619923485[/ebay]
or better still - sell a child BUY A DRAGON!!
[ebay]200508735629[/ebay]
Why not save for a 5 or a 7?
(this one is OVER priced - the 7 is worth 4-500 tops - the 5 is a cheaped up 7!)
[ebay]220619923485[/ebay]
or better still - sell a child BUY A DRAGON!!
[ebay]200508735629[/ebay]
Radio raheem
Requiem Æternam
Congrats cb I saw that one but diddnt bid as it was pick up only... but i bought a dt680 the other day for £30, both these units are superb
it's round the corner from the RX505 I won for 1.20
So I'll pick em up tonight
What with the FH404 and the B&O that;'s quite a haul in 1 week.
All of them for under a 100
So I'll pick em up tonight
What with the FH404 and the B&O that;'s quite a haul in 1 week.
All of them for under a 100
MasterBlaster84
Boomus Fidelis
ClaretBadger said:it's round the corner from the RX505 I won for 1.20
So I'll pick em up tonight
What with the FH404 and the B&O that;'s quite a haul in 1 week.
All of them for under a 100
Now that's the way to have a bigger blast with the hobby and bury yourself in a hurry.
Radio raheem
Requiem Æternam
ClaretBadger said:it's round the corner from the RX505 I won for 1.20
So I'll pick em up tonight
What with the FH404 and the B&O that;'s quite a haul in 1 week.
All of them for under a 100
I take it you diddnt buy the fh7 then my friend..... thats a great haul for under £100 bro... imho most boxes should be this cheap.. it would make this hobby far more interesting and exiting....
jaetee
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ClaretBadger said:
Okay... please pardon the off-topic here... but since you're the original poster and you elaborated, I'm gonna go off on a Nak-tangent here for a moment...
And did I read that correctly???? You scored a Nak RX-505 for 1.20 pounds??? If so, that's gotta be the cassette deck score of the year!!!!!
Yea, I'm still looking at the older Naks, because that is IMHO really where the bargains are, and those were the units that really helped solidify the Nak name that was originally started by the "really old ones" like the top-loader 600, and the ueber-large 700 and 1000, which are not so much my cup of tea. Not going to go there so much unless I stumble across a really cheap one in the wild. I like the front loaders, and the 480 and 582 are about as old as I plan to go. On my hit list are the 680zx, Dragon, CR7 and ZX9. But, those are on just about everybody's hit list and typically go for mucho dinero.
I remember when the BX-300 came out and got GREAT reviews. At the time it was the first deck ever hailed as the poor man's Dragon because it's performance specs and sound quality came pretty damn close for only 1/3 of the cost (which was still about $600 more than I could realistically afford, no matter how long I stared at the pic and re-read the reviews). So, instead of a BX-300, which was selling for around $800 at the time, I settled for an open-box BX-125 that I picked up way under market price for around $125. Easy to remember due to the model name. Even then, that was a $400 deck, so I felt that was a score to pick one up with warranty and all. And in essence, the BX-125 is a scaled down 2-head version of the 300, minus the output volume slide and with analog counter. The BX-125 and it lasted me for over a decade before it died a miserable death at the hands of a friend (lesson learned). I never bothered to fix it and it ended up trashed. Oops.
So, while I wasn't necessarily in the market for it, picking up the opportunistic BX-300 was akin to fulfilling step-one of a 25 year old, somewhat dormant but still lukewarm quest. Judging from the looks of the pics, I seriously doubt that deck will "work well" as it was described, but it should clean up pretty good. And maybe I'll get lucky and with a simple idler wheel and belt replacement I might end up with nice BX-300 which I can sell for a profit and eventually pony up and get a Dragon.
This is actually the second Nak I've managed to score in the last month. I also bought (ebay, but local pick-up) an RX-202 that needed an idler wheel. I changed out the idler wheel and have done some tests with it and it works 100% perfect. So, here's my current Nak inventory:
- RX-505 (works 100%)
RX-303 (works 100%)
RX-202 (works 100%)
582 (works 95% VU & record on right channel a hair less sensitive than left channel)
BX-300 (supposedly working, we'll see)
480 silver (playback only, record caps fried last time I tried to record, could smell 'em, LOL)
480 black (parts unit only, no real hope or economically viable to fix)
Too many, I know... but once I figure out EXACTLY which ones I definitely want to keep, I'll sell a few off and put that money towards a Dragon.
ClaretBadger said:Especially when it means I can get a bargain like this - I've always wanted one:
Panasonic RX CT990
[ebay]180544911187[/ebay]
I scored one of those 980s for 15$ at a local thrift its in great shape but the tape controls on the lft deck are sloppy and the rht tape deck plays fast other than that sounds great.. Here is my panny stack the 980 is at the bottom..
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