Thank you for sharing this. This brought a wave of nostalgia for me and if you dont mind, I would like to share my own experience about him.
I knew Mr. Nakra personally, having first met him at his store in the later 80s, when I wanted to some help in reviving an DOA open reel deck I had acquired gratis (Akai GX4000D). Mr. Nakra not only helped me revive it FOC, but it was beginning on an unlikely bond between a teenager and a 60+ year old.
Mr. Nakra could be curmudgeonly on first meeting but he was a person of great depth and very strong opinions (as most idealists are). His wife and daughter were extremely charming and graciously and very wisely, they manned the showroom and answered the sometimes idiotic questions that potential customers asked about PMPO (Alas, the PMPO wars had begun) of the amps and speakers. (a question like that could bring out a different side of Mr. Nakra).
Eventually, I did become a consumer of Enbee, buying their integrated amp. (for some reason I preferred this sound to the separates which he also sold). These along with a Nikko Audio tape deck formed the mainstay of my parent's drawing room system for over a decade. As I got to know more and more people who were interested in Audio, I realised that "Nishi' had been part of so many people's life and Enbee speakers graced a lot of drawing rooms in NCR (even though their kids had Sony FH systems, like the one below)
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The Genius of Mr. Nakra was getting magical sound out of available components and make it all come together. For those of you who have haunted lajpatrai market / lamington road at that time would know, there was not much available. However, if i had search within, my choice would be for the older Acoustic suspension speakers he made in his earlier days rather than the vented stuff he made in his later years. Sure, none of his Bass-reflex speakers boomed, as Mr. Nakra had a huge allergy to "One note bass - his words"; but the tightness and the cohesiveness of his older sealed systems remain memorable from my teenage years (and ears). I can only think that it was a his concession to evolving consumer tastes. I also remember that for some period in the early 90s he did a Bose 601 Series I lookalike. Having heard both back to back ( we went from the Bose - owners house in NFC to the Enbee showroom in Shankar market- 25min from room to room on a bike in those days), I can safely say Enbee was quite ahead in terms of extension and clarity, though in fairness, different rooms and the Bose was over a decade old. Post script, while the bose owner didnt buy Enbees, he did sell the Bose, very shortly.
As I moved out of NCR to study and to work, I lost touch with Mr. Nakra and his wonderful family. this was still before social media or even mobiles helped us stay connected. I heard of his passing many years after it happened and I still regret not being able to pass on my condolences to his family.
