Akai GX-4000
Not much is documented about the Akai GX-4000. The closely related GX-4000D is described as a compact deck with GX heads (HiFI-Stereo, 1984, p.71).
Equipment directories from the 1980s keep pointing to the GX-4000D. It's a compact open-reel deck with GX record and playback heads and a separate erase head. It takes reels up to 7 inches. It offers tape/source monitoring, mic/line mixing, sound-on-sound and sound-with-sound, plus a track selector (HiFI-Stereo, 1984, p.71). Nobody says how the base GX-4000 differed from the GX-4000D, or whether it was a distinct production model at all.
A 1974 HiFI-Stereo review gives the related Akai GX-260D a frequency response of 30 to 21,000 Hz ±3 dB at 7½ ips (HiFI-Stereo, 1974, p.71).
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