Akai GX-230 E

Data

General

• Manufacturer: Akai
• Model: GX-230 D
• Type: Tape machine
• Years of manufacture: 1975 - 1977
• Made in: Japan
• Color: silver, wooden cabinet
• Remote control: no
• Power consumption:
• Dimensions: 440 x 215 x 405 mm (WxHxD).
• Weight: 15.5 kg
• Original price approx.: 1.100 DM (1976)

Connections

• Number of outputs: 3
  • DIN (0.5 V)
  • Line (0.775 V)
  • Headphones (30 mV / 8 Ohm)
• Number of inputs: 3
  • Microphone (0.3 mV / 10 kOhm)
  • Radio (3 mV / 27 kOhm)
  • Reserve (70 mV / 200 kOhm)
  • Line (70 mV / 200 kOhm)

Technical data

• max. coil diameter: 18 cm
• drive: 3 motors
  

One 4-pole AC servo motor type SCM2-24KJ for the capstan drive
Two 6-pole eddy current motors type 24XO-MR for the tape plates

• Heads: 4 tone heads but erase and record head structurally combined
  

One GX-combination head with erase and record head type RE4-6
Two GX playback heads type P4-202

• Tracks: 4
• Tape speeds: 9.5 and 19 cm/s
• Slip:
• Speed variations:
  • at 19 cm/s: < 0.08%.
• Pitch fluctuations:
• Overall frequency response:
  • at 9.5 cm/s: 20 - 20,000 Hz
  • at 19 cm/s : 20 - 25,000 Hz
• Signal-to-noise ratio: > 57 dB
• External signal-to-noise ratio:
• Distortion factor:
  • at 19 cm/s: < 0,9% (333 Hz)
• Entzerrung:
• Übersprechdämpfung:
  • gegensinnige Doppelspuraufzeichnung, Mono: >60 dB (1 kHz)
  • opposite stereo operation: > 43 dB (1 kHz)
• quenching attenuation: > 71 dB
• Premagnetization and extinction frequency: 100 kHz

Special Features

• Auto-Reverse

Remarks

• Other models of the same series (Here machines that have an almost identical equipment-technology-electrical components but are "only" all small winders):
• Akai GX-230 D
• Akai GX-265 D
• Akai GX-270 D
• Akai GX-630 D Large spooler

Pictures

• Excerpt from brochure: Akai GX-230 D

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