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Akai (Akai Electric Company, Ltd.) is a Japanese consumer electronics producer founded in 1929. Image File history File links Logo_akai. ...
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Historical products
The manufacturer's most notable product was of reel-to-reel (more notably, the GX series) audiotape recorders, tuners, audio cassette decks, amplifiers, video recorders, and loudspeakers. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (640x826, 40 KB)The Akai GX-747 Reel To Reel Tape Recorder File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (640x826, 40 KB)The Akai GX-747 Reel To Reel Tape Recorder File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1200x769, 145 KB) Summary The Akai GX-77 Reel To Reel Tape Recorder. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1200x769, 145 KB) Summary The Akai GX-77 Reel To Reel Tape Recorder. ...
A reel-to-reel tape recorder (Sony TC-630), typical of those which were once common audiophile objects. ...
A Sansui TU-X1 stereo FM tuner. ...
Typical 60-minute Compact Cassette. ...
For the British rock band of the same name, see Amplifier (band) An amplifier can be considered to be any device that uses a small amount of energy to control a source of a larger amount of energy, although the term today usually refers to an electronic amplifier. ...
U.S. stamp commemorating the VCR. The videocassette recorder (or VCR, more commonly known in the British Isles as the video recorder), is a type of video tape recorder that uses removable videotape cassettes containing magnetic tape to record audio and video from a television broadcast so it can be...
Closeup of a loudspeaker driver Wall-mounted loudspeaker. ...
Many Akai products were sold under the name Roberts in the US. In late sixties, along with Tandberg, Akai has pioneered Cross-Field recording (using extra head), which facilitated high frequency recording. Later they switched to Glass-ferrite epitaXial (GX) heads, famous for reliability.
The most famous open-reel models are GX-747, GX-77 (unique model with auto-loading).
Prominent cassette decks included three-head, closed-loop GX-F95, GX-9, GX-R99.
The company limited its consumer Hi-Fi product line in the United States in the 1990s.
Akai Introduces The Interactive Monitor System (On Screen Display) Akai was also a leading brand with their VCR Technology back in the 1980s. The Akai VS-2 Was the very first VCR ever built to have on screen display which completely eliminated the need for the user to be physically near the VCR to program it to automatically record TV programs, tune in TV stations, read the tape counter etc. All the information was displayed on the TV screen. Akai called it the Interactive Monitor System. It took several years for the other manufacturers to adapt this technology to their own products.
Akai Professional Akai Electronic Musical Instruments Corporation, better known as Akai Professional, was started in 1984 as a division of the company. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The first product released by the new subsidiary, the S612 12-bit digital sampler, was the first in a series of affordable samplers. An AKAI MPC2000 sampler A sampler is an electronic musical instrument that can record and store audio signal samples, generally recordings of existing sounds, and play them back at a range of pitches. ...
Some of their other early products include the Akai AX-80 8-voice analog synthesizer, and the Akai AX-60 and AX-73 6-voice analog synthesizers. The AX-60 borrowed many ideas from the Roland Juno 106, but used a real VCO, and had the ability to have a split keyboard.
The S612 was superseded in 1986 with the introduction of the new professional range of digital samplers, starting with the 12-bit S900 in late 1985, the 16-bit S1000 in 1988, and the S3000, complete with writable CD-ROM and Hard disk Recording. They have recently released the Z4 24-bit 96kHz sampler. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...
Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ...
Akai also produces several Digital MIDI sequencers and digital synthesizers such as the MPC range (MIDI Production Center), a line of integrated sampler/drum machine and MIDI sequencers that look like a drum machine. In the field of electronic music, a sequencer was originally any device that recorded and played back a sequence of control information for an electronic musical instrument. ...
A digital synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to make musical sounds. ...
MPCs - originally MIDI Production Center but now Music Production Center - are a series of hardware sampler made by Akai. ...
New Ownership
Current products Currently, the consumer electronics company is undergoing a re-exposure, which began in early 2003. The company markets various rebranded video products manufactured by Samsung, and has distributors around the world. In the same year, Akai began to distribute home appliances (HVAC units, vacuum cleaners, water filtration devices, and even refrigerated store showcases). HVAC (pronounced either H-V-A-C or, occasionally, H-VAK) is an initialism/acronym that stands for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning. This is sometimes referred to as climate control. ...
Canister vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner (colloquially in the UK, Hoover after one of the major brands) is a device that uses an air pump to create a partial vacuum to suck up dust and dirt, usually from carpeted floors. ...
In polluted or even unfiltered mountain water there are lots of parasitic organisms and inorganic chemicals that are dangerous to humans. ...
In late 2004 Akai was quietly purchased out of bankruptcy. The new owners also purchased Numark and Alesis out of bankruptcy in previous years. Alesis is a manufacturer of electronic musical instruments based in Cumberland, Rhode Island. ...
External links - Akai
- Akai Professional
- Akai tape decks
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