AKAI love

[kjello]

Show us some of that silver faced Akai stuff.
Feel free to post Akai pictures in this thread, love to see what you got.
Here is my AM-2600 amp and a GX-4000D r2r

 

[elnaldo]

GX-635D (Auto reverse)

 

[SpruceMoose]

My VERY humble Akai collection

 

[kjello]

GXC 740D

 

[rottalpha]

My Akai looks good from far, but it is far from good.
It will take some work the get her back to prime.

 

[kjello]

My Akai looks good from far, but it is far from good.
It will take some work the get her back to prime.

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I dont think I've seen that one before, what is it ?
Very nice.

 

[mr.muddles]

My first vintage silver faced receiver was an AKAI AA-1050. It sounded better than the Sansui 2000x to me at the time that I got later. I sold the Sansui. Still have the AKAI but I finally need to move it along too.

 

[rottalpha]

I dont think I've seen that one before, what is it ?
Very nice.

http://www.thevintageknob.org/akai-PRO_1000.html
here if you want one

 

[kjello]

http://www.thevintageknob.org/akai-PRO_1000.html
here if you want one

Seems to be quite rare and very expensive

 

[BrandonAudio]

Sorry, mine is not sliver, but one of the reel is!

 

[Oldsansui441]

Awesome RTR BrandonAudio, love that stand also.

 

[BrandonAudio]

Awesome RTR BrandonAudio, love that stand also.

Thanks Mr. OldSansui! I think you noticed the 9090 peeking in the corner. To the right of it is a black 747 on in the photo. Enjoy your weekend!

 

[Oldsansui441]

Yes l did also see the Sansui sneaking into the photo there, you have some nice gear. Thank you, enjoy your weekend also.

 

[GyroTuner]

AT-550 tuner (I also have the AT-580 which looks nearly identical). Both have the raised metal "badge", as do the matching integrateds (AA-5500 and AA-5800).

 

[Oldsansui441]

Nice tuner GyroTuner, l bet they are excellent performers. Do you know how many FM gangs the AT-550 and AT-580 have just out of curiosity?

 

[GyroTuner]

Nice tuner GyroTuner, l bet they are excellent performers. Do you know how many FM gangs the AT-550 and AT-580 have just out of curiosity?

Thank you. They are good tuners, that compare favorably to most of the other tuners I've owned. The AT-550 and the AT-580 each have four FM gangs.

There is not a lot of information about them, but I posted some specifications and some other pictures in the tuner forum: https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/addicted-to-tuners.910591/page-2

Here are a couple of other Akai beauties (pictures from web, not mine). If anyone has a good picture of the Akai AA-7000 receiver, one of the more unique designs out there, please post.

Akai AA-5000S integrated




Akai AA-930 Receiver

 

[johnebravo]

I'll post this for laughs: when I was a teenager, I had an Akai CS-500 "Invert-O-Matic" cassette deck, which was so named because when the cassette would reach the end of a side, a robotic arm would reach out and snag the cassette, lift it up, flip it over, and set it back down to play the other side. This often produced astonishment in visitors when they saw it for the first time -- and the fact that they were often herbally enhanced at the moment almost certainly heightened the amazement. It was so early, there wasn't even any Dolby circuitry . . .

 

[Oldsansui441]

The AT-550 and the AT-580 each have four FM gangs.

There is not a lot of information about them, but I posted some specifications and some other pictures in the tuner forum: https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/addicted-to-tuners.910591/page-2

Thanks for the info and link to your other post. Very solidly built tuners by the looks of it.

 

[kjello]

Love the simple and clean design of the 1980 CS-M02

 

[kjello]

A little more futuristic design on the 1983 CS-F36R