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


Pictures

  • Excerpt from brochure: Akai GX-230 D

Akai GX-230 D-Prospekt-2.jpg


Reports

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