Gauss CR-7A
The archive's own source material refuses to attach this model number to a Gauss product.
Overview
This page is a caution, not a catalog entry. The Vintage Technology Archive has no verified research showing that Gauss - the loudspeaker and driver brand represented elsewhere in this archive by the HF 4000 - ever made a component designated CR-7A. The source material assembled for this entry has no specifications, production years, pricing or design documentation for a Gauss CR-7A.
The confusion is easy to follow once the source documents are laid side by side. Every excerpt indexed under the CR-7A designation in this archive's document set points to a different manufacturer: the Nakamichi CR-7A, a discrete-head cassette deck that anchored Nakamichi's Series -7 component system alongside the PA-7 power amplifier, ST-7 tuner, CA-7A control amplifier, and OMS-7AII CD player. A period Audio (January 1988, p.68) feature on bulk tape erasers used the Nakamichi CR-7A as its reference deck for erasure-depth measurements. The reviewer found the deck erased a 400-Hz test tone on Type I tape to at least 83 dB, effectively the noise floor of the analyzer. It managed roughly 77 dB of erasure on Type II and metal-particle tapes. That is a cassette deck, not a Gauss loudspeaker component.
Mail-order listings from the same era point the same way. A dealer advertisement in the same Audio issue (January 1988, p.68) priced the "CR7A" at $1,199 as part of a Nakamichi lineup that also included the BX300, RX505, and Dragon. Collectors searching for a Gauss CR-7A will find that price sheet long before they find any Gauss documentation, and the price sheet is not about Gauss.
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