It is now going to price you much more to get the Nakamichi Dragon 11.4.6Â house theater machine. The corporate introduced on Monday that it is elevating its already sky-high costs via $400 because of an build up in production and packaging prices. It’ll nonetheless be offering 1,000 devices on the authentic $3,499 value, with preorders opening on Aug. 3 at 12 p.m. ET (9 a.m. PT).Â
Every Dragon unit is composed of over 700 elements and calls for a 110-step meeting procedure that is carried out solely via hand, the corporate mentioned. The finished machine weighs 140 kilos and is packaged with sufficient coverage to resist a 12-foot drop check, in line with Nakamichi. The long post-assembly inspection procedure, coupled with delivery changes made to reduce the danger of crushing the product, ended in the fee build up.Â
“We remember the fact that value changes could be a delicate topic,” the corporate mentioned on its web site. “Leisure confident that this determination used to be made after cautious attention and research of manufacturing 500 Dragon methods.”
The Nakamichi Dragon, which used to be introduced at CES in January, is about to be the corporate’s flagship house theater machine. The plug-and-play unit options 14 speaker drivers powered via seven virtual amplifiers which are embedded into a stainless-steel casing. It comes with two 8-inch wi-fi quad subwoofers and omnimotion wi-fi surrounds, which combine more than one channels in combination for multidirectional sound.Â
