![]() ![]() Doesn't look very good, but functional nevertheless! Somehow, Akai as a audio company faded away shortly after making their best stuff, along with a few other big Japanese brands!Ĭompatible remote sourced from Mr Oh. The top panel with wooden side cheeks visible, typical of Japanese high end audio in the 1990's. The bottom panel is copper coated on the out side, and look at those big, heavy real glazed ceramic feet! The front facia is typical cassette deck design, but good ergonomics ![]() The back panel, note the copper coated screws and that funny grey power cord! My unit is a 220V unit from Europe, but somehow ended up in China, and now Malaysia. All this build leads to a rather heavy 10.2kgs cassette deck, 12.2kgs shipping weight, if came together with original packaging foam & box like mine! The back panel has an extra pair of RCA CD direct input for recording, other than the usual input & output. Those metallic Champaign footers are the real deal, where they feature glazed ceramic underneath. ![]() Most body screws and the bottom panel are copper coated for EMI/RFI screening purposes. The cassette well door is motorized and can be operated by wireless remote, as per most playback functions. On the outside, the styling is plain classy restraint and functional to boot. With such construction method, the 2U box becomes super stiff, whilst achieving isolation for each circuitry. The bottom left bunker contains power regulator board for audio only circuitry which is located in the bottom right bunker. The top right bunker contains all the operations and logic circuitry. The top left bunker contains the power supply transformer & power supply board behind the cassette mechanism. Each bunker or compartment houses different sections of circuitry for best possible isolation. It feature 4 bunkers inside the 2U all metal box, yep just built like the Yamato class battleship. Let's look at the build quality, it's as luxurious as cassette decks comes, with that brutish, big and bold body in all satin black aluminum facia and side wood cheeks. Then in 1991, Akai gave it a MKII facelift, with a slight improvement to specifications. The original GX-95, a 3 head, 3 motor, dual capstan closed loop designed with real time recording monitor function as most top dog models do, was developed by Akai to be a Nakamichi killer in 1988, so to speak, and Akai made it the best they could muster, in every way possible. As part of the Akai Reference Master series components, the line up also includes a matching CD player, tuner & integrated amp. In my exploration, I came across this Akai GX-95 MKII model, which was made between 1991-1993 and available only in Japan, Europe and US markets. And if you've been reading this blog, you'll notice my craze for cassette decks lately! My hifi appetite can be insatiable! There is always an aspiration for top tier stuff if I am ever serious about something. What could be the cause of this slippage? Is there a third belt I cant see? Is belt replacement something I can do? I work on my motorcycles and so on, but this looks like I could approach it from the wrong direction and make everything even worse.Īny hints? Somebody must have seen this sort of "slippage" before.Akai GX-95 MKII cassette deck, it's big, bold, yet luxurious I opened it and the belts seem to be fine, the capstans turning indepedently of anything else I can see. The seller assumed, and I accepted, that the belts would need replacing. I can hear the FF/Reverse motor whirring, without slowing down, as if a clutch was slipping, but the spools stop and the thing turns off. Towards the end the spools start slowing down and then stops altogether. The problem is, it records and plays fine (as far as I can tell so far, bought it yesterday) but fast-forward and reverse only work in the middle of the cassette. I have a question: I was recently infected with the tapedeck "bug" and my latest aquisition is an AKAI GX-95. Hello, I don´t know whether my "netiquette" is correct or not, I´m sure somebody will tell me soon enough.! ![]()
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