Akai (???) is the brand name of consumer electronics. The original company was founded in 1946 in Tokyo, Japan as Akai Electric Co., Ltd. , developing music and audio equipment. Akai collapsed in late 2000 under James Ting, who owed a creditor $ 1.1 billion, and was removed from the Tokyo Stock Exchange in February 2001.
Today the Akai brand is owned by Akai Sales Pte Ltd which is headquartered in Singapore. In addition to some musical instrument development, Akai brand names are also used to rebadge electronics produced by other companies.
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Company history
Akai was founded by Masukichi Akai and his son, Saburo Akai (who died in 1973) as Akai Electric Company Ltd. ( ???????? , Akai Denki Kabushiki-gaisha ) , Japanese manufacturer in 1929 or 1946.
The company's business eventually became problematic and left the audio industry in 1991. At its peak in the late 1990s, Akai Holdings employs 100,000 workers and has annual sales of HK $ 40 billion (US $ 5.2 billion). The company filed for bankruptcy in November 2000, owed its creditors US $ 1.1 billion. Apparently, the ownership of Akai Holdings somehow passed in 1999 to Grande Holdings, a company founded by Akai chairman James Ting. The liquidators claimed that Ting had stolen more than US $ 800 million from the company with the help of Ernst & amp; Young who has damaged the audit document will return to 1994. Ting was jailed for fake accounting in 2005, and E & Y paid $ 200m to settle the case of omissions out of court in September 2009. In a separate lawsuit, the former E & amp; Y partner, Christopher Ho, made a "substantial payment" for Akai's creditors in his role as chairman of Grande Holdings.
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History
Historical products
Akai products include reel-to-reel audio cassette recorders (such as the GX series), tuners (top level AT, mid-level TR and TT series), audio cassette deck (top GX and TFL, mid-level TC, HX series and CS), amplifiers (AM and TA series), microphone, receiver, turntable, video recorder and loudspeaker.
Many Akai products are sold under the name Roberts in the US, as well as A & amp; D in Japan (from 1987 after partnering with Mitsubishi Electric), Tensai and Transonic Strato in Western Europe. During the late 1960s, Akai adopted the Tandberg field cross-field recording technology (using extra head tape) to increase high-frequency recording and switch to the increasingly reliable head of glass and crystal (X'tal) (GX) several years later. The most popular products in the company are the GX-630D, GX-635D, GX-747/GX-747DBX and GX-77 open-reel (the latter features an auto-loading function), GX-loop three-head, F95 covered, GX-90, GX-F91, GX-R99 cassette tapes, and AM-U61, AM-U7 and AM-93 stereo amplifiers.
Akai produces and coats most of its imported hi-fi products under the Tensai brand (named after Swiss electronic and audio distributor Tensai International .Tensai International is Akai's exclusive distributor for the Swiss and Western Europe markets until 1988.
Akai limited its consumer line of hi-fi products in the United States and Europe towards the end of the 20th century.
On-screen display recognition
Akai produced a consumer video cassette recorder (VCR) during the 1980s. The Akai VS-2 is the first VCR with on-screen display, originally called Interactive Monitor System. By displaying live information on a television screen, this innovation eliminates the need for users physically near the VCR to record programs, read cassette counters, or perform other common features. Within a few years, all competing manufacturers have adopted on-screen display technology in their own products.
Akai Professional
In 1984, a new division of the company was formed to focus on the manufacture and sale of electronic instruments, and is called Akai Professional.
The first products released by the new subsidiary were MG1212, 12 channel recorders, 12 tracks in 1984. This innovative device uses cartridges such as special VHS (MK-20), and is good for 10 minutes continuous recording of 12 tracks (19 cm per second ) or 20 minutes at half speed (9.5 cm per second). One track (14) is permanently dedicated to recording absolute time, and another for synchronization such as SMPTE or MTC. Each channel strip includes a dbx-1 noise reduction and a semi-parametric equalizer (with fixed bandwidth). The unit also has innovations such as 2 electronic bus systems, 12 channel stereo channel channels and auto punch in and out, among others. The unique transport design and noise reduction provide these recording quality units that rival the more expensive 16 track machines using 1 "tape. The MG-1212 was later replaced by the MG-1214, which improved the transport mechanism and overall performance.
AX series analog synthesizers
Other preliminary products include the 8-voice Akai AX80 analogue synthesizer in 1984, followed by AX60 and AX73 6-voice ca.1986 analog synthesizer. AX-60 borrows many ideas from the Roland Juno series, but uses a voltage-controlled analog oscillator (VCO) as a sound source compared to Roland's more commonly digitally controlled digital oscillator (DCO), and also allows players to "split" use different tone colors for different key ranges). AX-60 also has the ability to interact with early Akai samplers via serial cable, using 12-bit samples as an additional oscillator.
S series digital samplers
The 12-bit S612 digital sampler in 1985, was the first in a series of (relatively) affordable samplers already in 19-inch studio rack format but in black. It only holds one sample at a time, which is loaded into memory via a separate disk drive utilizing a 2.8-inch fast floppy disk. The maximum sample time at the highest quality sampling rate (32 kHz) is one second.
The introduction of various "professional" digital samplers started with the 12-bit S900 in 1986, followed by the X7000 keyboard sampler in 1986, and the rack-mounted version of the S700 in 1987. Unlike the single sample S612, however, they allow the use of six active samples at the same time, has a built-in disk drive and can be extended with six individual outputs via cable and flash memory extensions that add six other samples to memory for multisampel playback. The S700/X7000 sampler series is light gray, which does not change across the "professional" range of Akai samplers.
The Akai S1000 16-bit was followed in 1988. The latter was replaced by the S3000 series in 1992-1995, which mainly featured writeable CD-ROMs (on the S3000CD) and hard disk recording (on the S3000i), followed by the S5000 and S6000. Additional releases of the note are Z4 and Z8 24-bit 96 kHz samplers.
MPC
Akai also manufactures multiple Digital MIDI sequencers and digital synthesizers such as MPC ranges, integrated drum machine lines, MIDI sequencers, direct samplers and recorders to disk.
New ownership of Akai Professional
In December 1999, one year before the introduction of the Civil Rehabilitation Act for Akai Electric Company Ltd., their brand of musical instrument division, Akai Professional was acquired by a US company. The new company "Akai Professional Musical Instrument Corporation" ( Professional AKAI M.I ) was founded in the same year, but went bankrupt in 2005.
In 2004, following a US distribution deal, the Akai Music Instruments Professional division was acquired by Jack O'Donnell, owner of Numark Industries and Alesis. Numark, including Akai Professional, was acquired in 2012 by InMusic Brands.
Professional Akai Products that are somewhat in demand today are DM13 microphone models. This indirect small unit was originally created for cassette recorders, as well as CB radio equipment. Today, they can be found in the warehouse of many blues harmonica players due to their high gain and high impedance properties.
Current product
In early 2003, consumer electronics companies began undergoing re-exposure by marketing various rebranding video products manufactured by Samsung. In the same year, Akai began distributing home appliances such as HVAC units, vacuum cleaners, water filtration devices, and cooled store showcases.
In Canada, the Akai portable DVD player is sold at 'The Source by Circuit City', and in Zellers, a division of Hudson's Bay Company.
Video
- AV receiver
- Portable DVD player
- DVD player
- DVD Recorder
- Home theater system
- Home Theater Speakers
- VCD player
- VCR
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- Amplifiers
- The cassette recipient
- CD changer
- CD receiver
- DVD changer
- DVD receiver
- Car Audio - DVD player
- Car Audio - Speaker
- Car Audio - TFT monitor
Home appliances
- AC
- Air conditioning
- Air purifiers
- Chest Freezers
- Dishwashers
- Heater
- Ice maker
- Microwave oven
- Fridge
- Displays
- Vacuum cleaner
- Washing machine
- Water dispenser
- The wine cellar
Audio
- Stereo rack system
- Mini system
- Micro music
- Retro radio
- Voice mailbox
- Portable music player
- Tape Deck
- Portable DAT Recorder/Player (Blue Body, DirectOrder Webshop only, OEM from JVC/Victor)
- Portable MD Recorder/Player (Blue Body, DirectOrder Webshop only, OEM from JVC/Victor)
Digital
- Wireless Surround Sound System
- Bluetooth
- MP3 player
- Mobile
Television
- Color television
- LCD Television
- Plasma television
- Set-top box
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See also
- 1/4 inch Akai VTRs
- VH Akk (VCR cassette format)
- List of phonograph manufacturers
Note
References
Further reading
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"Akai S20 sampler". Music of the Future . No. 56. Publishing the Future. May 1997. p.Ã, 20. ISSNÃ, 0967-0378. OCLCÃ, 1032779031.
External links
- Akai
- Akai Professional
- Antique Acrylic Cassette Collection of Vintage Akai Cassette Decks and other brands.
- akai.com on archive.org archive from akai.com from 1996 to 1998.
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