Always lusted after a Nakamichi Dragon, anyone have one in the day?
I used to record Radio Luxemburg and Caroline in the 80's on my Akai deck and was annoyed with the constant clicking sound, recently I found out this was the 'Russian Woodpecker' radar system.
Anyone else remember this?
I used to record Radio Luxemburg and Caroline in the 80's on my Akai deck and was annoyed with the constant clicking sound, recently I found out this was the 'Russian Woodpecker' radar system.
Anyone else remember this?
Yes, I listened to it in the 70's. I can remember the Russian woodpecker, too. My distance was much longer than yours, I believe. We had heavy fading due to the ionosphere or solar activity, sometimes the program disappeared altogether. Nice memories.
Wonderful.
The TD1200 heads are actually the only other Nakamichi-made heads that are compatible with the Dragon if replacement is required - you know, if that Dragon user has been using those evil, murderous typeIV tapes that supposedly 'kill' heads, lol.
Sell it to me. I have cash waiting - I'm a serial type IV tape user with a Dragon, so it's a foregone conclusion that I'll need a replacement head at some point!
Seriously though, sell it to me.
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My old man had one back in the day from when I was about 15 (1985).
I wasn't allowed to look at it, let alone use it without his pre-use briefing, approval and inspection of the tape/s I was going to use. lol
Then, if I was allowed the hallowed priviledge of making any recordings on it it was by his hand and not mine.
'You don't know what you're doing you damn fool' he would grumble. Well, it was partially true I suppose.
In any case, fast forward 40 years and at one point there were 3 on my bench at the same time at one point.
Failure anxiety got the better of me so I got rid of 2 and kept the 'best' one in the bunch.
It still functions and performs amazingly, even with those terrible head-killing typeIV tapes >.<
I remember the Nakamichi Dragon, wanted one but the price was like 2200 cad then.
Only deck I heard that a normal type cassette recording was as good as the original. It was so much better then the rest.
Dire straights would soon release digital CD albums and I never really looked back.
Only deck I heard that a normal type cassette recording was as good as the original. It was so much better then the rest.
Dire straights would soon release digital CD albums and I never really looked back.
