What was your favorite?

mhardy6647

Probably the coolest pieces that I actually own are these two, even though they're not terribly representative of the 'collection': Pioneer RT-909 and CT-F 1000. Sorry the only picture of the latter is an autopsy photo :-)

george daniel

Here it is

audiobliss

heiney9 wrote:

Steve, Nak always used the Dragon nameplate for the best of the best they had to offer. You are probably thinking of the Nakamichi Dragon turntable. It actually used a vaccum system to suck the lp to the platter and it had a self centering spindle that exactly centered any lp. It was 'effing cool as hell not only because of the mechanic/engineering involved but it looked just as cool. They made a Dragon cd player as well that was a monster of a transport and a completely seperate DAC and power supply. All three pieces retailed for $10,000.00. The Dragon nameplate has always been the absolute best they could come up with at that point in time.

My Dragon cassette deck was absolutely phenomenal. The self adjusting azimuth system was simply amazing. You had to have an audio degree to set up each tape for recording. It had seperate test tones for L & R channels at 3 seperate frequencies to help set the tape bias and equalization for every single tape you put in the unit for recording. The Ferarri of tape decks

H9

Drooooool....Man...I want a Nakamichi Dragon something now....I'm gonna hafta search for pics of that turntable..sounds wicked!!


mhardy6647 - Awesome looking Pioneer units you've got there.


ESAVINON - Interesting sounding turntable as well.

Normanality - :eek: Awesome McIntosh you had!!

dragon1952

heiney9 wrote:

Steve, Nak always used the Dragon nameplate for the best of the best they had to offer. H9

Hell, with a name like Dragon what do you expect! :cool:

sda2mike

when i was 19... i had these tower speakers...i'm 5'10", they were chest high...i think they were ESS, not sure, tho....they had a 12" p.r....a 12" woofer...2 5" mids and really heavily built tweeter...the insides were cool, too. the xovers had huge caps and coils and above the woofers, a heavy board curved upwards. the mids were isolated as was the tweet...these things weighed well over 100 lbs! being young & dumb, i pulled the p.r.'s and threw in some 12s from an ampeg guitar amp! :eek: they still sounded good, though!..i'm sure my amp loved that modification! these things really made the concrete floor in my parents basement vibrate!! :cool: alas, i moved far away and GAVE them to a friend. But now i have my new coolest possesion: my sda2b's

dragon1952

Roy Munson wrote:

I always wanted one of those Teac decks. Very cool.

Yep, that was a sweet looking machine. I paid $470 for that overseas in the military A/V outlet in 1977. High retail at the time was around $1100 in the States. I think I sold it to a used audio shop in 1989 for $50, still working perfectly