Akai GX-93 Restoration: Overcoming Challenges for Impeccable Performance
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Welcome to our detailed restoration video of the Akai GX-93 cassette deck. From battling incompetent repairs to resolving a missing channel during recording, this deck faced numerous challenges. Join me as I navigate these issues and bring this deck back to peak performance.
🔧 Restoration Journey:
Fighting Incompetent Repairs: Learn about the initial challenges posed by previous incompetent repairs and how they were meticulously addressed.
Investigating Recording Issues: Discover the investigative process that uncovered the missing channel issue during recording and the solutions implemented to restore full functionality.
🎶 Impressive Recording Capabilities:
Type I Tape Performance: Witness the astonishing recording capabilities of the Akai GX-93, which records flat up to 20 kHz on Type I tape.
Stable Phase and No Intermodulation Distortions: Experience the deck's super stable phase and absence of intermodulation distortions, ensuring high-fidelity audio reproduction.
👂 Sound Demonstration:
Comparable to Nakamichi: See how the Akai GX-93's performance stands on par with the best Nakamichi decks, delivering impressive audio quality.
Upcoming Sound Demo: Stay tuned for the next video, where I'll demonstrate the sound quality and recording prowess of this fully restored deck.
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These were the best decks at one time. I still own one. Aiwa also made incredible products of similar listings quality. I own also a good Haran Kardon 491CD and a lower model TD 202
Wayy back then i bought Gx52. No bad deck but woke looking front end. AiwA made wayy more eightees screaming decks. Adf 660, 770, and A FlagShip 990. They stand out marvelous and futuristic feel. And it was back 1983 !!!
Someone beat me to it but what a beautiful deck. I've always loved cassette decks and I still have some of my old ones somewhere in the basement.
I've had 2 of those Akai decks over the years, excellent, except both have a common problem with the motor head gear that locks up ,can FF and RW well, when changing to play the mechanics locks up.
Hello. I enjoyed you video because I have the same one actually I have 2 of them , it play and records well the issue of both akai deck is the top motherboard, there is an 8 or 12 pin black part that become super hot when playing , its the one in the middle , close to the vetical heatsink. And both of them have the same issue.
Beautiful deck!!!
Great video👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
One of the sexiest decks I’ve seen.
I think you should try the ultrasonic bath clean(er)... under the assumption if deoxit gets in there it should do the same a water based cleaning solution which you can later displace with compressed air or a solvent.
Curiously enough the transformer's size of this big and complex unit appears to be pretty close to the transformer size in my Technics RS-B16. It might be that one or the other is a bit of a stretching it out.
In most cases, it is not necessary to remove the switches because each one has a "window" through which contact cleaner can be applied.
@@salermo42 sometimes contact cleaner can't cut it. It might work a couple of days keeping the crud wet and allowing easier contact but in the end you need more drastic measures like desolder, disassembly, cleaning or direct replacing.
There are some techniques that might work like softening the crud with various agents, blowing it off towards an escape vent with high pressure air and repeat it several times, or wick out the solvents with cotton wool but... that's not something you would want to hand to a paying customer afterward.