Hitachi

Explore Hitachi vintage audio equipment in the Vintage Technology Archive.

Cassette Decks

• D-5500 — Hitachi D-5500: a 1979 microprocessor cassette deck with ATRS auto tape calibration, solenoid transport, and Dolby NR. Obscure; known from period reviews.
• D-800 — The Hitachi D-800 is a three-head front-loading stereo cassette deck from the mid-1970s with Double Dolby and a 63 dB S/N rating. Little else is documented.

Power Amplifiers

• HMA-7500 — Hitachi HMA-7500 MOSFET power amplifier, reviewed by High Fidelity in 1979 and listed in a 1982 directory. Rated 75W/ch into 8 ohms.
• HMA-8300 — Little is documented about the Hitachi HMA-8300. The archive’s raw notes for it are essentially empty; what survives are a few period reviews.

Receivers

• HTA-50AV — Vintage 1980s Hitachi HTA-50AV audio separate (amplifier/receiver). Scarcely documented; known phono stage and service manual; resale-only record.
• SR-804 — Hitachi SR-804 (1978) stereo receiver with Class G amp: 50W RMS per channel, doubling to 100W on musical peaks. A scantly documented model.

Unknown

• 88A — Hitachi VT-88A VHS Hi-Fi VCR: 14-day/6-event timer, $1,095, 20 Hz–20 kHz Hi-Fi audio per 1984 High Fidelity tests. Includes when it was made.
• C-70 — Little-documented Hitachi C-70 audio component; known specs from Audio (Jan 1983): ±0.5 dB response, >90 dB dynamic range, 0.03% distortion.
• DA-5000 — The Hitachi DA-5000 CD player is almost entirely undocumented; only a bare model-name link and a single parts-or-repair listing are known.
• DA-800 — Hitachi DA-800 CD player (c. 1983–1984) — a little-documented early Hitachi Compact Disc player profiled in Audio (May 1984).
• P-100 — I need to flag a serious problem before writing: the research package for this page is internally inconsistent, and the model identity is not resolved.
• V-300 — Hitachi V-300 (PCM-V300): a PCM digital audio recorder from the early 1980s, reviewed by Audio magazine in 1982. Little documentation survives.
• V-300E — Little is documented about the Hitachi V-300E, a VHS-based PCM audio deck. A 1983 review in Recording-Engineer places it above the Technics SV-P100.

Other Models

• FP-21 — Hitachi FP-21 — three-tube Saticon professional color camera, 580 lines, 55dB S/N, +9/+18dB gain, RGB out for chroma key. The non-auto-setup sibling of the FP-22.
• HR-100 — Hitachi HR-100 — the smallest Type C one-inch portable VTR ever built, with die-cast uniblock chassis, plug-in modules, and 3-way power.
• HR-200 — Hitachi HR-200 one-inch Type C broadcast VTR — 80-second shuttle, PRO tape path, snap-out six-head drum, HR-210 console variant.
• HS-300 — Hitachi HS-300 (1975): a $189.95 two-way vented floorstander with a gathered-edge 8-inch woofer and 2.5-inch cone tweeter. Polite sound, wide dispersion.
• PCM-V300 — Hitachi PCM-V300 (1982) — 41.8-lb all-in-one EIAJ PCM digital recorder with built-in VHS transport, 44.056 kHz/14-bit, ~$3,200 new.
• SK-70 — Hitachi SK-70 modular broadcast camera — three 2/3-inch Saticon tubes, studio-to-ENG conversion, Digital Command Unit. A flexible ENG-era workhorse.
• SK-97 — Hitachi SK-97 Computacam — broadcast EFP camera with on-board computer, 59 dB S/N, 700 lines, two-minute auto setup.