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Old 07-24-2017, 09:22 PM
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I have a CR-7A in near mint condition, although not used in years.
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Old 07-31-2017, 02:09 PM
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I still use my Dragon...it sounds wonderful...especially after Willy Hermann did an upgrade.
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Old 03-28-2018, 02:09 PM
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Does anyone know how the Dragon compares to the 1000 series? I've read that the 1000's technology was more "advanced" and was/still is more expensive than the Dragon, but does it sound better? Everything I read indicates that the Dragon is the "best," but is that relative to cost? Or in absolute terms?

Looking at my old mountain of cassettes and reading about these beasts it making me seriously consider getting one. While both are no doubt vastly superior to my JVC TD-W10, I only want to buy ONE four figure cassette deck.
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Old 03-29-2018, 03:59 AM
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I bought a CR7A because to me it sounded marginally better than the Dragon however I preferred the look of the Dragon better. A dilemma.
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Old 03-29-2018, 08:00 PM
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Does anyone know how the Dragon compares to the 1000 series? I've read that the 1000's technology was more "advanced" and was/still is more expensive than the Dragon, but does it sound better? Everything I read indicates that the Dragon is the "best," but is that relative to cost? Or in absolute terms?

Looking at my old mountain of cassettes and reading about these beasts it making me seriously consider getting one. While both are no doubt vastly superior to my JVC TD-W10, I only want to buy ONE four figure cassette deck.
The 1000ZXL is said to be the best of the best, the other 1000s are entirely different. Willy Hermann has also done a 1000ZXL where he put a Dragon transport in for lower W&F. For me, not worth the cost of a 1000ZXL or the potential service nightmares. Best also depends on what you want. I prefer my ZX-9 for recording since it has adjustable record azimuth. The Dragon doesn't have that, but of course has the NAAC for automatic playback azimuth adjustment. Both decks allow you to manually set bias/level for recording. The CR-7 does it automatically, for better or worse, with manual PB azimuth adjust. The RX-505 is a great playback machine and does a nice recording job with tapes it is calibrated to. That's why most tape junkies have multiple decks. If you mostly play your own tapes, I'd go with a ZX-7 or ZX-9. If you play a lot of tapes from other people/recorded on other decks/pre-recorded, I'd probably recommend a Dragon.
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Old 07-06-2018, 12:13 AM
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Well got my DRAGON back from Willy.

This thing showed my CR-7A the door.

https://youtu.be/WPScF_a_L78

Don't have a 1000ZXL yet. Working on it.
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Old 04-28-2019, 03:34 AM
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Bringing this one back from the dead, I recently got my Dragon back from service with the intention of selling it. Until I saw the specs the tech measured. W&F is .017% in fwd and .015% in rev. FR at -20db is 11-23kHz +/- 3db. As great as that is, I'm ever happier to have my ZX-9 back in shape, it has a power supply recap and a full orange cap replacement.
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Congrats Maks, the ZX series are sleepers.
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