Nakamichi AV-10
Little is documented about the Nakamichi AV-10. It was an AV receiver, going by the model prefix and its listing in the Audio-Database equipment directory. That's the whole classification. No production years, no original price, no input/output configuration and no channel count have surfaced.
The one concrete figure is a measured power output of 59.9 W, recorded in the Audio-Database's test column. The same directory has a "Power" field with a manufacturer-rated value, presumably 60W. The page layout makes it unclear whether that is the factory rating or just a restatement of the measurement, so it can't be pinned on either one. No frequency response, THD, signal-to-noise, impedance, dimensions or weight data has been found.
A 1999 issue of Audio (October 1999, p.89) ran a Nakamichi advertisement for the AV-8, described as "the ultimate surround-sound receiver" with 80W × 5 channel power. That suggests Nakamichi had an AV receiver line at the time. The AV-10 does not appear in that ad, and no period review or mention of the AV-10 itself has turned up in the available press.
If you own an AV-10 or have a manual, the archive would welcome documentation. As it stands, this page exists to confirm the model's place in Nakamichi's history — and to acknowledge how little of that history is currently recoverable.
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