Akai GX-F95 3 Head Cassette Deck - Unboxing and quick test
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2020
- In this video I unbox and do a quick test of an Akai GX-F95 cassette deck, to make sure it survived shipping and is as described.
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Hi my names Tony and I'm a cassette-deck-aholic. All of us tape nerds, hi Tony. That's a rad deck.👍👍
I liked this Akai. I am glad you showed us Tony. Nice. I think these are getting rarer than rare. This is before Akai got absorbed by Diatone. Finances were not kind to Akai. Mismanagement killed this wonderful riding the wave company. I grew up with Akai. My Dad and his Dad had them. Saburo Akai would be proud to see his machines still loved by us. Now gone forever in 2002, these are the finest of a legacy that is no more. Like fine wines or Champagne you get just once. Tony you should get one of these. Epic machines. Nakamichi, Tandberg Studer Revox B&O and more were at the party fighting hard to earn your money. I have my eye on a Technics RS-M280. I need that like a hole in the head. Not smart, yeah I know, but I love my tape machines. My Teac X7 reel to reel is my go to for Reel to Reel tape. I don't need a big 10.5 NAB machine. This suits me just fine. Tape doesn't die if you and all of us do our part to hear, love it, and live it. Everyday!
Good old TDK SA90, a cassette that sounded great (very balanced) and worked superbly on all decks. I have an unopened SA60 from 1982.
This deck can reaches up to 72 db on Dolby B!! This is a record at the time. My Nakamichi bx-300 need Dolby C to obtain this level of signal to noise.
Never had this model. My girl bought me the GX-f31 model for christmas in 1983. Loved the wide range, two color meters and record cancel features. Had the f31 for over twenty five years before it died. Recorded a lotta stuff from my local NYC rock station, WNEW-FM, 102.7 in it's heyday during the 1980's. A great looking machine this GX-f95. My main deck now is a Denon DRM800A in excellent condition picked up cheap for $125. Nothing like a TOTL cassette deck for great recording and listening pleasure. Nice video.
What the cost
Akai was my brand of choice when I was a budding audiophile in my early and mid teen years. I had 2 over the years, prior to the double well deck era. I thought they were a really good value in terms of overall quality and sound quality. Clearly I would have preferred to have a big Sony reel to reel, or eventually a Nakamichi, but I didn't have the money for stuff like that, so Akai was my mid-fi deck brand of choice. My first deck was a "Sankyo." Yes, Sankyo with a K inserted in the middle of the name. It actually wasn't awful, but predictably is wore out and started to wow due to some worn belt or something and I was not mechanically or electrically capable enough at the time to try to fix it myself. I was able to step up to a nice Akai with CrO2 setting and later for a second deck I eventually got another Akai in the "Metal" tape era for tape-to-tape dubbing.
No more get ready now.
Lovely beautiful cassette deck. Bring it back. We love this stuff
I had GX-F91 back in 81 but this F95 is a dream, to my knowledge it was made by Mitsubishi. In the class of Technics RS-M95 and JVC DD9 but F95 is the one I missed, cheers bro!
Beautiful deck, love the 80's akai styling too.
I used to have a big, bulky Akai reel to reel machine back in the 80s. Loved that thing. Very solid build.
I’ve just come across your channel and am very impressed. I’ve been an ardent fan of the cassette medium fo 50 years. I still use daily a Sony CF 420L that I purchased in 1973. My system deck is a Denon DRM - 550. Please keep up your excellent work!
In the 70's my love for AKAI started. This japanese brand made stuff that grabbed me seriously by the throat...wanted it so badly...and I did/worked for it, until I could spend the valuable pennies on the GX-F35 and went on with the AM U-02 and AT-K03 (still remember the different types right now...amazing). A complete set and finished it all off with BNS speakers and Sennheiser HD headphones. It was magic/AKAI was always at the forefront of developing magical stuff and it still works, now, some 40+ years later! Thanks for this!
Nice deck Tony. Akai made excellent cassette decks, especially the GX series.
omg this deck is a hell of a deck and it looks sweet. That's a beast right there! Luv it!!
Gorgeous deck. Sounds so vibrant and alive!!!
Akai ha prodotto grandi macchine , ho un Akai gx-95 mk2 che ha un suono eccellente tridimensionale, completo, con una gamma alta nitida e cristallina !
What a lovely cassette deck!!!!Beautiful!!!Sparkling sound!!!
Awesome deck. That motorised bottom lid is lovely. I'm a sucker for anything motorised. Even motorised volume nobs still make me smile ☺️. It just shouts out quality.