NEC

Explore NEC vintage audio equipment in the Vintage Technology Archive.

Cd Player

• CDR-01 — NEC HES-CDR-01 TurboGrafx CD player (1991) — a $399.99 console add-on that became a full-featured CD player only when docked to the TurboGrafx-16.

Cd Players

• CD-830DS — NEC CD-830DS compact disc player — little documented beyond a May 1989 Hirsch-Houck test in Stereo Review; Auto Edit feature and measurements.

Receiver

• AVR-1000 — NEC AVR-1000: 1987 Dolby Surround audio/video receiver, 100W front/50W rear channels, tested by Julian Hirsch. With production years.

Unknown

• 1000E — NEC 1000E — a name shared by a 1972 dynamic microphone and a 1982 Beta portable video system; little is documented.
• 2000U — NEC DX-2000U / 2000U, 1987 VHS VCR — reported as the first VCR to use digital processing to improve picture quality; $820 list.
• 2501A — NEC 2501A (CT-2501A): 25-inch stereo-ready color TV, $869, shown at CES 1984. Little else is documented. Covers production years.
• 500E — NEC CD-500E compact disc player — three-beam laser, motorized drawer, variable line outputs — per a lone HiFI-Stereo 1987 test report.
• 509E — NEC 509E (CD-509E), NEC's $449 low-cost CD player from 1985 with 15-selection programmability. Little-documented early model.
• 607E — NEC CD-607E compact disc player from 1985, documented mainly by a High Fidelity test report noting 88.2 kHz oversampling and 70+ dB channel separation.
• 650E — NEC 650E (CD-650E) CD player, reviewed with enthusiasm in Audio, Dec 1986; 15-selection programming, 96 dB S/N, 1s adjacent-track access.
• 700E — Little is documented for the NEC 700E. The archive has no factory fact sheet for a product under precisely this name.
• 803E — NEC 803E (CD-803E) first-generation CD player from 1983: specs, $1,300 price, and criticisms from Audio's November 1983 review.
• 830DS — NEC CD-830DS compact disc player, tested by Hirsch-Houck Labs in Stereo Review (May 1989). Notable feature: Auto Edit track selection for cassette recording.
• AVD-700E — NEC AVD-700E: a little-documented late-1980s surround-sound A/V processor, known mainly through Audio's March 1988 Equipment Profile.
• CT-2015A — NEC CT-2015A. Little is documented about this model; a 1989 HiFI-Stereo roundup shows era NEC monitor/receivers, but the CT-2015A's identity and specs remain unconfirmed.
• DX-5000U — The NEC DX-5000U, a little-documented 1980s VHS VCR, earned praise from High Fidelity in Dec 1987 for excellent video performance and digital noise reduction.
• M-50 — NEC M-50 mono power amplifier, 50W, with adjustable high/low filters. Documented only in a 1987 HI-Fi-Stereo-Buyers listing.

Other Models

• CD-803E — NEC CD-803E (1983) first-gen CD player: 26.4 lbs, 99-track programming, wireless remote, $1,300 list. Great sound, fiddly ergonomics.
• TT-7000 — NEC TT-7000 (1979) — a rack-mountable one-inch Type C studio VTR built by NEC and marketed by 3M, with optional aided-track-following and the NTC-10 TBC.
• TT-8000 — NEC TT-8000 (1982) one-inch Type C broadcast VTR, a joint 3M/NEC machine priced around $79,000 with Lexicon-derived time compression and split-edit capability.
• uPD70208 — NEC uPD70208 (V40) 16-bit microprocessor — 8-bit data bus, on-chip interrupt/DMA/timer/serial peripherals, 8 and 10 MHz variants, host CPU in Lexicon PCM 80/81.