Mitsubishi
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Models
Cd Players
- CD-500 — Mitsubishi CD-500, an obscure five-disc CD changer; period listings call it the M-CD500 with 1-bit DAC, 8× oversampling, $180.
Preamplifiers
- C-20 — Mitsubishi C-20 (dates undocumented). Little is known; period reviews cover the similar DA-C20 tuner/preamplifier but the relationship is unconfirmed.
Recorders
- 10-DAT — Little is documented about the Mitsubishi 10-DAT car DAT player, reviewed as the DT-10. Audio's May 1989 test measured 95 dB dynamic range and 86 dB S/N.
Unknown
- A-01 — A little-documented model: the Mitsubishi A-01 appears in period literature as the M-A01 amplifier in Mitsubishi's Micros series, profiled in Audio.
- F-10 — Mitsubishi F-10: a little-documented model, possibly the DA-F10 AM/FM stereo tuner listed in Audio (Dec 1977) with full specs.
- HTS-300 — Mitsubishi HTS-300 A/V receiver (c. 1992). Announced at $1,699 with Dolby Pro-Logic and 100W x3. Little else is documented.
- R-20 — Surviving information on the Mitsubishi R-20 is thin, and even the model's spelling shifts between period sources: Mitsubishi's own ads call it the R20.
- R-35 — The Mitsubishi R-35 is a little-documented audio model; the only nearby period listing is a Mitsubishi R352/MD two-way speaker from 1990.
- R-8010 — Mitsubishi R-8010 (M-R8010) four-channel Dolby Pro Logic A/V receiver, c. 1990, $1,399 — 125 WPC front, 25 WPC rear, on-screen surround calibration.
- U-59 — Little-documented Mitsubishi U-59 tape deck, reviewed as the HS-U59 at $599 in 1994, with a 30-second Quick Search skip feature.
- X-800 — Mitsubishi X-800 32-track digital multitrack — 32 audio + 8 parity tracks on one-inch tape, 48 kHz, no tape editing. Period studio workhorse.