Akai 267-D (1979)
Documentation on the Akai 267-D is limited to a pair of magazine reviews from mid-1979. The deck was also sold as the Akai GX-267D, an open-reel tape deck. Audio (June 1979, p.102) tested it and published full manufacturer’s specifications. HI-Fi-Stereo-Buyers (July 1979, p.48) described it as a machine that delivered “outstanding sound quality” with surprisingly straightforward controls, a contrast to the trend toward increasingly complex tape decks of the era. Separate record selectors were provided for each channel, and the transport controls illuminated to indicate the direction of tape travel.
Here are the magazine’s test-benched specs, transcribed from the Audio review:
- Frequency response: 30 Hz – 26 kHz at 7½ ips; 30 Hz – 20 kHz at 3¾ ips
- Harmonic distortion: 0.5%
- Signal-to-noise ratio: 56 dB
- Erasure: 70 dB
- Input sensitivity: Mike, 0.25 mV; Line, 70 mV
- Output level: Line, 0.775 V; Headphone, 100 mV at 8 ohms
- Wow and flutter: 0.06% WRMS at 7½ ips; 0.09% at 3¾ ips
- Speed accuracy: ±0.5%
- Wind time: 90 seconds for 1200 ft
- Dimensions: 17.3 in. (44 cm) W × (depth and height not recorded)
Beyond these two reviews, almost nothing has survived in period literature. No production years beyond the 1979 review date, no original price, no circuit details and no service manual have been traced. The 267-D appears to have been a solid, mid-range consumer open-reel deck that earned modest praise for its sound and usability, but the historical record is essentially those two magazine appearances.
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