Has any piece of hi-fi ever sounded as mythical or mystical as the Nakamichi Dragon?,” What Hi-Fi? once asked as we mused upon the most legendary hi-fi products of all time. The Dragon cassette deck was indeed one of our chosen 14, owing to the lasting prestige surrounding the exquisite high-end deck, born in 1982 following a decade of innovative and premium cassette deck design by the company.
The Dragon naming carried through to a turntable in 1985 and a CD player in 1996; but for the past two and a half decades