Dragon CD player?

madmax
madmax Posts: 12,434
edited February 2010 in 2 Channel Audio
http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?dgtlplay&1270862515

I didn't know they made this, pretty cool!
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited February 2010
    There's also a Dragon turntable.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,566
    edited February 2010
    No SACD.....pfffft.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited February 2010
    The Dragon is a series.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited February 2010
    F1nut wrote: »
    No SACD.....pfffft.

    The Dragon CD player was introduced waaaaaay before SACD was introduced.
    dorokusai wrote: »
    The Dragon is a series.

    I don't think that's true. I believe there was the lengendary Dragon cassette deck first....then came the Dragon turntable, which self-corrects for off-centered vinyl pressings. The Dragon CD player came much later....late 80s/early 90s?
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited February 2010
    The time doesn't match up but it was Nakamichi's reference series of components, among a couple other oddities. 1982-1997.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited February 2010
    What about the Model 1000 DAT player/recorder? Not a Dragon, but Nakamichi placed a special significance on the model number.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,420
    edited February 2010
    I would tend to think the Dragon would sound better with regular CD's than most SACD's sound on players below the 5k pricepoint. My experience with the Dragon line is limited to the cassette deck. I can say without question that it made the few tapes I have left sound as good as or better than an SACD on my cheap Yamaha SACD/DVD changer.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited February 2010
    Danny Tse wrote: »
    What about the Model 1000 DAT player/recorder? Not a Dragon, but Nakamichi placed a special significance on the model number.

    I'm not sure Danny as my factoids in the head are limited when it comes to Nakamichi.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • kcoc321
    kcoc321 Posts: 1,788
    edited February 2010
    There is also one on eBay
    http://cgi.ebay.com/Hi-end-NAKAMICHI-DRAGON-CD-DRAGON-PS-DRAGON-DAC_W0QQitemZ280469817451QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item414d4dc86b
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,165
    edited February 2010
    The "Dragon" series from Nak is legendary, unfortuneatly the TT and perhaps the cassette deck are the only pieces still relevent today.

    When the (3) piece Dragon cdp came out it was a killer unit, state of the art and I'm sure it still sounds very good today but for the $$$ owners seem to think they are worth it's ridiculous because of advances in today's digital components.

    For the kind of asking price the Dragon cdp's go for you could buy a TOTL player or dac brand new that would sound better.

    When tapes were popular I owned a Dragon cassette deck, bar none, the finest piece of equipment I owned and the best cassette deck ever built (some will argue that) I owned and had access to quite a few TOTL dacks back then and none of them compared to the Dragon. But it's ancient history now. If I were into cassettes I'd still own the Dragon.

    The Dragon TT and the T1000 model were special and are still special today with the dual arms and computer controlled automatic centering. They go for very high prices when complete and in full working order. I've seen the Dragon TT sell for between $8500-10,000 because of rarity, collectibility and coolness. Could one spend $8500 on full vinyl rig and get better performance than with the Dragon TT, most likely. But DAMN are they cool TT's that can sound excellent.
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