Nakamichi PA-304
Very little is documented about the Nakamichi PA-304. What survives comes from a handful of period magazine references and a few fleeting listings. It appears to have been a car audio power amplifier, part of Nakamichi's short-lived effort in the mobile hi-fi market during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Audio (May 1990, p.123) ran a brief item titled "Power by Nakamichi," which suggests the PA-304 was positioned as a performance-oriented car amp, likely meant to pair with Nakamichi's own head units and speakers. The same publication (January 1990, p.103) mentioned 20,000Hz response in both tape directions. That is probably the amplifier's bandwidth rather than a tape deck spec, since the phrasing appears in the same OCR fragment as the model number. No confirmed power output, impedance, or distortion figures have turned up in any period source. The PA-304 is absent from Nakamichi's main US catalogues of the era, and it is missing from the collector databases too.
Known or reasonably inferred details:
- Product type: Car audio power amplifier
- Brand: Nakamichi
- Period: Late 1980s–early 1990s (exact years unconfirmed)
- Frequency response: At least 20–20,000 Hz (per Audio 1990 reference)
- Power output: Not documented in any accessible source
- Construction: Likely a compact chassis for mobile installation
If you own a PA-304, the Archive would welcome a photograph or any spec sheet that might still exist. For now, this page is a placeholder.
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