Price Paid:  $425.00

Summary:
Purchased in 1978 Very nice deck. Works especially well with metal tapes. I used to purchase a lot of direct disk and audiophile recordings on vinyl. This deck did such a great job of recording them that friends would wait in line to use it! I later got an Onkyo Integra TA-2058 (very good deck too) because it had dolby c & hx pro. Even with a little more tape hiss the NAD is an excellent deck. And still in use today, never having been in for a repair.

Weaknesses:
none

Similar Products Used:
onkyo ta-2058

Price Paid:  $115.00 from Ebay

Summary:
I can't believe it's not CD!!. O.K., well I might be stepping on the toes of a few good CD players (sorry), but this is a great cassette deck. I have heard a few in my day, and this is by far the best. Why do I say that, because this NAD monitor series cassette deck is as well made on the inside, as decks far more expensive. It helps to be an Electronics Technician Student.

Strengths:
Great sound, smooth, life like sound, you get the idea...

Weaknesses:
That they don't make them like this anymore!!.

Similar Products Used:
h/k CD91, CD291, Technics, Akai, Onkyo, Denon, etc...

Summary:
I used to own this deck, but I sold it. Im never using tapes nowadays anyway. Well, when I had it and used tapes alot I was very satesfied. My friends always wanted to use the deck for their own tapes. A couple of good cables makes it even better. This is a five star product, especially if you buy it second hand. I find the recordings to be more relaxed than other decks.

Strengths:
At the price? Everything!

Weaknesses:
At the price? None!

Similar Products Used:
Pioneer decks, Sony decks, etc

Summary:
This is a great sounding deck. I have owned Sony, Technics (several models), an earlier NAD, Nakamichi and TEAC, but this is the most natural sounding and realistic deck I have heard under $500. Recording is precise and playback quality is fantastic. The cassette format suffers from numerous design flaws (1/8" tape and 1 7/8 ips to start with)and rarely lives up to expectations, Dolby be damned, but this deck comes the closest I have heard to true fidelity. Absolutely the best under $500. I am not, by the way, an NAD booster. I have had problems with the quality of earlier NAD and Proton products (at one time made in the same plant in Taiwan), especially the amplifiers. I bought this deck from some clown who never used it b/c he preferred to utilize a dual deck with more bells and whistles. I acquired it for $50 and a better purchase I have never made.