Priced at $2,499, the Dragon was targeted at serious high-end clientele. It was discontinued in 1993 after an 11-year production run. Used Dragons still regularly show up on eBay and go for $600 to $1,000. One of the coolest Nak cassette decks however, was a hi end car deck that ...
NAAC was technically a very clever, perhaps too clever for the time, and to me the Dragon is unnecessarily complicated, and reliability suffers. However, the yuppies loved it and the Dragon soon gained the undeserved reputation as the best cassette deck on the planet, a myth many fleaba...
850 Dragon (later repriced to $2,499) was nothing short of an engineering marvel. Among its features was a beltless and springless dual-capstan transport with direct-drive motors controlled to remarkable accuracy by a quartz clock; the mechanism intentionally pushed away the cassette...
The Dragon almost deserves a story of it’s own, but it is not a deck I am fond of. It was Nakamichi’s first ‘auto reverse’ deck and geared more for playback with the introduction of NAAC ( Nakamichi Auto Azimuth Correction) and used a very complex playback head. The Dragon used...
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NAAC was technically a very clever, perhaps too clever for the time, and to me the Dragon is unnecessarily complicated, and reliability suffers. However, the yuppies loved it and the Dragon soon gained the undeserved reputation as the best cassette deck on the planet, a myth many fleabayers...