Appears there is a serious resurgence of analog cassette deck & tape collecting, which is emphasized with several essential book publications. Check this one out: Just released as a booklet. Available from the cdJapan.co.jp web site, priced at $20 USD, and postal delivery another ~ $20 USD: https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/NEOBK-2456125 Cheers, Bleusy ****************
Received my copy of this book last week. It's an awesome pictorial Nakfest! Thanks for the link/info.
Great & enjoy the excellent photo images. Any ideas on how we can optical letter scan (OCR enabled) with Japanese characters and translate captions? I'm pondering the potential of recreating an e-booklet ...... Cheers, Bleusy ***************
Here's additional info regarding the Nakamichi booklet from Neko Publishing: Search Results Web results Nakamichi Complete Book - NEKO PUBLISHING www.neko.co.jp › MAGAZINE › ライフスタイル Translate this page Jan 30, 2020 - 過去のステレオ時代で行ったNakamichi OBの方々へのインタビュー記事を再編集した。 現時点におけるNakamichiの遺産を可能な限り収めたものである ... Bleusy **************
Here's a web link to the Neko Mook Stereo Generation eBlog, with lots of interesting reading (when you do the google "translate this page" option ..... https://translate.google.com/transl.../magazine/nakamichi-complete-book&prev=search https://translate.googleusercontent...page/3&usg=ALkJrhi3VZXnwIueb7zlqmVpSBxUXWtSBA Check out the cover page for Cassette Tape Complete !!! Cheers, Bleusy ************
Bingo !!! I found an OCR web site that also translates the japanese text to english. Here's the table of contents and intro page translation - A bit rough translation language, but mostly legible: ******************************************** NEKO MOOK 2923 ~ January 2020 Special editing of the stereo age Nakamichi COMPLETE BOOK Nakamichi Complete Book CONTENTS PAGE "The mystery of Nakamichi" Kozo Komori X Hoju Tobimatsu * Shigeo Makino …… ー ……… 004 [Brand Story] To the height that no one can reach on the cassette deck ... 010 Nakamichi Product Album Cassette Deck ①- "017 “Nakamichi” Genealogy of cassette tape… 088 Nakamichi DRAGON on the cassette deck ... 092 DRAGON Developer Story [Road to the Dragon] …………… 096 Nakamichi Product Album Nakamichi Product Album Everything on the TX-1000 to read the groove of the record perfectly ...- 142 Nakamichi Product Album DAT / CD PlayerDVD / AmplifieReceive / TunerAudio AnalyzerRE149 Cassette Deck Sanya OB Roundtable "Nakamichi Service Center", which continues to support users "184 (column> Nakamichi spill story Zhu battle to Nakamichi car audio at that time ... doo Maintenance of silent mechanism① Maintenance of silent mechanism② The most familiar "Nakamichi" publications in japanese language MB-V300 / MB-H300 / MB-K300 ... However, as far as I know, only Nakamichi has been published in the past. | No book has been published, so I thought it should be kept in future generations and decided to accept it. Nakamichi has released a series of very original products, including the charisma of founder Etsuro Nakamichi, and has been a longing brand for those who enjoy audio as a hobby during the audio heyday. I am one of them, and even now I cannot supplement that strength. This time, from my collection, the Nakamichi brand home audio domestic model was compiled this time, but it is up to the Nakamichi collector merit to have all of them proposed and submitted. If possible, I would like to interact with Nakamichi fans in places to actually see and write. It's a miracle, and I don't think it's hard to put all the Nakamichi into the book and always forget that the domestic audio of that time is forgotten. In particular, the field of cassette decks (cassette tapes), which have become the pinnacle of the world, is the true value of domestic audio. (Hitoju Tobimatsu) But I think that ultimately Nakamichi should be passed on to future generations. I would like to leave this shining moon as a document at this opportunity, ask almost all of that raised to Mr. Tobimatsu, If you can feel a part of Michi's interaction with all the moons and half holidays as sacrificed bamboo shoots, this book is it. (Hitoju Tobimatsu) STAFF Publisher: Keifumi Shirakata Editor: Shin Sawamura Special Advisor: Shigeo Makino Cooperation and Director: Yasuhiro Tobimatsu Equipment Cooperation: Kunihiro Kato Kazuya Kaehara Nishimura Acoustic Store (http: // nishimurasoundjp /) Nostalgic cassette tape museum (http://compactcassettes.jp/) Special Cooperation Kozo Kobayashi Hideo Goto Hiroyuki Miyamoto Photographed by Yasuzawa Yasuzawa Kazuhisa Yamada Yoshiro Takigami Tokukazu (mph) Takashi Fujiwara Hiroki Kamada Tomohiro Kikuta Takuji Murakawa Takanori Asuka Business Promotion Department Yuka Kitahara Gojin Shimoshita Publisher: Neko Publishing Co., Ltd. 141-8201 3-1-1 Kamiosaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo Meguro Central Square Phone: 04-2944-4071 [Customer Center] Phone: 03-5745-7824 [Editor] Printing: Chuo Reprint Co., Ltd. Please contact the above customer center. @ 2020 NEKO PUBLISHING CO., LTD. Cat Publishing Homepage URL https://www.neko.com.jp/ 186 ******************************************************* More coming as time permits ....... Cheers, Bleus de Nakker ****************
I looked for books, and they have a lot of book stores, but you have to go through them one at a time and since they're under 1/2", there's hundreds of them. The language barrier doesn't help, they call them radio-cassettes, not boomboxes and most of the younger generation doesn't know what they are. My buddy has an app on his phone, the camera acts as a scanner reading the writing and translating it, it does it in real time.
