Akai 910

The Akai 910 shows up in period sources under two different identities. The surviving record doesn't say whether it's one model number reused across product categories or two completely different machines.

The earliest reference is a 1966 advertisement in Studio Sound (May 1966, p.6). It lists an "AKAI 910" at 62 guineas, next to a range of tape recorders - the X355, M8, X4, and others. No description is given, but the context strongly suggests the 910 was a tape recorder of some kind, sold in the UK in the mid-1960s. No specs, track format, or speed information for that unit has survived.

Seven years later, the name comes back as part of Akai's "900 Series" of stereo receivers. The ads describe the 910 as delivering "a power level sufficient for any need" with wide frequency response and low distortion. No wattage, sensitivity, or THD figures appear in the surviving ad copy. The 910 was the entry-level model of the series, below the 940, which was quoted at 180W total music power and 1.7µV sensitivity.

Beyond these two brief appearances in period advertising, nothing else is documented: no service manual, no reviewed performance measurements, no production years, and no surviving units known to collectors. The 910 remains a name that surfaces in print twice, in two different decades, as two different product types — and the archive has no way to confirm whether they are the same.