Which Nakamichi to choose?

@blueranger Which Tandberg did you have back then? I’m listening to a recording of Harry James Still Harry... (sheffield labs Direct to Disk vinyl) on a Sony Metal ES tape, sounds fabulous.

Nevermind on the Tandberg model, it's 3014A.

My Dragon is not back yet. Its yanking the tape real hard but only does it sporadically.

@blueranger I could never warm up to Dragon's sound. It just didn't project the soundstage right.  I sold the Dragon but kept the ZX-7 for a long time until I came upon the 1000zxl. 

I have heard most of the pre Dragon Nak’s and prefer the Nak 600 MK II.

Simple "focused field" head design that can not be beat. Response to 20kHz.

The most warm and realistic Nak cassette deck IMO.

Right now after some serious a/b testing of my 582 vs bx300 I will have to say the new kid on the block to me (bx300) has slightly edged out the 582.
At least on playback of pre recorded tapes.

However both are very impressive with great frequency response from top to bottom.