Akai gxc-570d cassette deck review

Cosmetic Description: 5/10 - Fair condition. Has heavier than average cosmetic wear but no damage. Has not been abused or damaged. There are stains on the faceplate, pitting on the dustcover.

What is Included: Cassette deck

Functional Notes: All lamps and meters working. Operational condition of this item is excellent… fully tested and no issues found.

Age: Unknown

# of Owners: Unknown

Tobacco Exposure: No

Service History: None

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This Akai GXC-570D is a stereo cassette deck with double Dolby B noise reduction, it was first sold by Akai in 1976 with a recommended retail price of USD $900 and discontinued a year later.

The main features of the Akai GXC-570D are: 3 heads and off-tape monitoring, mechanical 3 digit tape counter and memory stop, manual tape type selection and capable of handling normal, chrome and ferro-chrome tapes, belt driven dual-capstan transport.

Typical front loading cassette deck with the cassette compartiment located on the left side of the deck. Tape eject is operated mechanically and the cassette needs to be placed with the side to be played facing forward in the cassette well.

Level meters used on the GXC-570D are analog needle VU reading meters. Full-logic transport controls used on the GXC-570D let it respond to the slightest finger contact for fast and effortless transport function selection. Playback speed may be adjusted with pitch control.

To ensure the best response from the wide variety of tapes available adjustment of, sensitivity, to optimum levels can be performed prior to recording.

The Dolby-B system reduces tape hiss on tapes recorded on the GXC-570D by as much as 10 dB at the highest frequencies. The three-head configuration of the GXC-570D requires a Double Dolby system, one for recording and one for playback.

To make live recordings this deck has 2 microphone inputs to connect microphones with a jack connector. For undisturbed listening a jack connector for a pair of stereo headphones is supplied. Connection to other audio components for plaback can be achieved by a RCA cable and recording from a source by a RCA cable. All main transport commands can be issued remotely with a wired remote control.

Part of the big ones and part of the very elegant ones, too, with the control panel inspired by that in Sony's TC-880-2 ;-)

The GXC-570D doesn't hold much when compared to a Nakamichi DRAGON for instance (at a roughly equivalent size & volume) but, still : GX heads and a huge 6-pole AC Servo motor with 77mm staggered oversized flywheels.

Nice touches : the pitch control and FF/REW speed control - no doubt the latter wound up quickly and always set at its maximum position !

The record head has 4µ gap, the play head 1µ gap. GX heads are a super-hard mix of glass and ferrite powder.

Add three beefy motors, three GX heads, Dual-Capstan and an everlasting quality typical of Akai's big units - the winning team for perfect cassette recordings !