Akai GXC-570 E

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General

  • Manufacturer: Akai
  • Model: GXC-570 D
  • Type: Cassette Tape Deck
  • Years of manufacture: 1975 - 1979
  • Made in: Japan
  • Color: silver, housing real wood
  • Remote control: yes, optional, cable remote control RC-17
  • Power consumption:
  • Dimensions: 440 x 255 x 225 mm (WxHxD).
  • Weight: 13,5 kg
  • Original price: 1'998 DM (RRP)


Connections

  • Number of inputs:
    • Line In 1, 2: 70 mV, 100 kOhm

Line In DIN: 20 kOhm

    • Microphone 1, 2 (2 x 6.3 mm jack): 0.3 mV, 4.7 kOhm
  • Number of outputs:
    • Line Out: 410 mV, 0.47 kOhm

Line Out DIN: 410 mV, 0.47 kOhm

    • Headphones (6.3 mm jack): 50 mV, 8 Ohm


Technical Data:

  • track system: 4 track, 2 channel stereo
  • Audio heads: 2

1x GX-double head for separate recording and playback, 1x erase head

  • Motors 3:
    • 1 x double capstan drive with frequency controlled servo motor, 2 DC motors for fast forward and reverse.
  • Speed: 4,75 cm/ s
  • Synchronous running fluctuations: 0.06 % WRMS, 0.15% (DIN 45500)
  • Band types: LN+LH, CrO2, FeCr, (I, II, III)
  • Frequency response ± 3 dB:
    • Type I: 30 - 15,000 Hz

Type II: 30 - 16,000 Hz Type III: 30 - 18,000 Hz

  • Signal-to-noise ratio:
    • better than 56 dB (Dolby off).
    • Dolby on: Improvement up to 10 dB above 5,000 Hz.
  • Rewind time (C 60): 60 s
  • Cancellation attenuation: better than 70 dB
  • Premagnetization: 100 khz
  • Auto reverse: no
  • Title search: no
  • Dolby NR: yes, adjustable Dolby
  • MPX filter: yes
  • Chrome erasure attenuation: 70 dB


Special features:

  • Level meter: 2x VU, switchable to peak display
  • Jog keys logic control
  • Tape counter: 3-digit, mechanical
  • Dual-Capstan transport
  • Rear band control
  • Adjustable Dolby


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Pictures[edit]

  • Image: Akai GXC-570 D

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  • Excerpt from brochure: Akai GXC-570 D

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Reports[edit]

  • Report 1 at "Good Old Hifi": [[1]]
  • Report 2 at "Good Old Hifi": [[2]]


Links[edit]

  • External link to website "The Vintage Knob": [[3]]