Cool Turntable

[heiney9]

I've always been impressed with the Dragon line put out by Nakamichi. The Dragon name is only given to those top of the line money no issue products which perform at an entriely different level than standard Nak products.

You don't see these FS to often and while I wouldn't pay anywhere near what they are asking (it will still probably sell) I've always been intrigued by this TT. An auto centering spindle is it's main claim to fame along with other rock soild engineering & performance. These are extremely rare and probably why they command such coin.

I've owned other Dragon components and can say the Dragon name is truely the best of the best.

No Affil.........posted for discussion and coolness factor :)

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[jm1]

I remember seeing one of those in a local store all those years ago. Still a cool TT.

[audiobliss]

What all did Nakamichi make with the "Dragon" name? Did they run the whole gamut (sp?), or just a few pieces?

[heiney9]

What all did Nakamichi make with the "Dragon" name? Did they run the whole gamut (sp?), or just a few pieces?

They had the Dragon Cassette deck which was probably the most well-known. I owned one in the day and it was the best effing deck I have ever heard to this day. Simply phenominal at making recordings. It had an auto azimuth adjustment as well as 3 diff frequency test tones for both L & R calibration for bias setting of each individual tape used to record in it. Retail on that deck back in the mid-late 80's was about $2800.

They had a Dragon cdp which consisted of a 2 piece unit. One piece being the transport weighing it at some thing like 40-50 lbs (if I remember) and a seperate stand alone DAC which weighed in slightly less. The store I worked at sold them in the day, but I never had the chance to own one. Spent some time with it at my house, but never actually owned it. Retail at the time was like $9500(for both pieces) if I remember correctly.

The PA-7 and CA-7 amp and pre-amp respectively were never designated at Dragon pieces but they were certainly worthy of the name. Both used Nelson Pass patented designs. The CA-7 had 2 power trannys a completely islolated motorized potentiometer for a volume control. Retail on each piece back then was about $2800.00 each.

One of my favorite systems back in the late 80's was:

Nak PA-7II
Nak CA-7II
Nak Dragon Cassette Deck or
Luxman Tube CDP
Polk SDA-SRS's or
KEF 107/2's
Audioquest cables.

That system was way out of reach for me at the time.