Talk:Nakamichi Dragon

Fine tuning
- - replacing even more important with another priority is factually incorrect or misleading. Relative azimuth is more important that absolute azimuth. It wasn't another priority, it was the ultimate target. But, as the article explains, the road to this target was so complex and costly that only two companies ever made it. I'm not sure what the proper wording should be, perhaps you can find a better formula. Retired electrician (talk) 00:04, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

- "left channel of a cassette tape is more prone to mechanical damage and dropouts" - this revision is sort of factually incorrect. It is correct for dropouts (they affect both channels, but often worse in the outermost left channel). It is wrong for mechanical wear, that initially doesn't affect right channel. In moderately frequent use, only the left channel suffers; if the right one shows sign of wear, the tape is already dead. For a while I changed to to "left channel of a cassette tape is more prone to dropouts and wear". Retired electrician (talk) 09:54, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Wow, I'm fluttered
I remember these from the hi-fi magazines of the period and found the detail fascinating. I have copy-edited more for general grammar and sense than for technical content, however, which I hope is helpful. A point worth drawing to the original contributor's attention is that the article uses some specifically US spellings at present; if that is intentional, I believe that is the author's prerogative, but if not intended then the 'international' version of English may be preferable.ProfessorDeYaffle (talk) 15:08, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi ; this article uses American English. The convention on Wikipedia is to avoid changing the variety of English used in articles without a good reason or consensus –&#32;please see WP:ENGVAR. Unfortunately, I reverted your edits for technical reasons (you altered some technical terms) and the aforementioned ENGVAR; thank you for picking up several spelling errors, which I fixed during my copy-edit. Cheers,  Baffle☿gab  01:19, 7 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for picking up the technical issues! The question re English variety was genuine; I wonder if it might be helpful for the original writer to make their intentions known and, once they have, to put a marker on the article so that subsequent editors don't unintentionally deviate?ProfessorDeYaffle (talk) 10:49, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * The article was based mostly on US sources. This, in part, reflects physical availability of sources (i.e. bias), but also the size of the market and installed base. We won't know exact numbers, but certainly the bulk of production ended up in North America. To me it seems normal that the article leans to US spelling.
 * Personally, I have no feel of English variants, apart from very obvious cases like color/colour. Right now I looked at the text, and it mixes up analog/analogue and I wouldn't know if these are regional varieties or interchangeable synonyms... Oxford says "analogue the norm, analog US", Webster lists both as interchangeble, and Texas Instruments widely uses analogue.
 * I'm AFC for the next few days, and will review the revised text in detail later (Aug 12 the earliest). I'll ping in the section above if the revisions seem incorrect. Retired electrician (talk) 21:34, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. If I have understood the manual of style correctly, the original contributor's intentions should probably guide the way under the 'Retain' rule, since there is no particular tie to either main variant of English. I can help with the term analogue, though, as the international spelling uses the traditional -gue ending while 'analog' is indeed specific to US English.ProfessorDeYaffle (talk) 08:26, 10 August 2020 (UTC)