What are your thoughts on the Dragon tape deck?

I used to sell Nak decks back in the mid 80's, but was not all that impressed with the Dragon. I felt that it had a darker sound when compared to the newer decks like the CR7a, which was my favorite. Also, the cassettes I recorded on the Dragon never sounded that good in my car stereo deck. I agree that the ZX and ZXL decks had better mechanisms, but could not compete sonically with the CR7A- more extended on the top and bottom. For auto reverse I'd go with the RX505, watching the cassette flip makes me think how smart these Nak guys were. All this is moot as age has decomposed all my cassettes and cds players have replaced cassette decks in cars.

Anyone have an opinion on the Nak 480? My local hi-fi store has a used one for $140. I have a bunch of tapes of my sister's various bands I want burn to CD.

Thanks!

Johncan

LUxman actually had some very good tape decks in the early to mid 80s...I wish I had the model #...but I bought one of the first decks to have dolby C...3 head/3 motor design...for around $500...it had a "mechanized" faceplate which moved when turned on/off...kind of gimmicky...but the deck itself sounded very good...compared it to similiarly priced NAK decks at the time...and it was superior...later sold it to a college buddy...who still uses it to this day...hard to find though...check ebay...

The LUxman deck was a kx-100....