This is my holly grail for amplifier ....in silver !!! You are so lucky to have it

Glad to have you back! You are a legend! What a beautiful amplifier!

Brother in 70s and 80s akai was the top of company for hi fi in UAE dubai which people dream to have akai hi fi in thim home that time i was 12 years old i remember the show room of akai it was so popular on that time brother

Glad to have you back let's get the review rolling. 🙂🙂

We missed the traveling and buying vintage stuff and filming at the same time

I have this amplifier in my collection, it’s sound solid and amazing ❤❤❤❤❤

@vintagestereo

2 ай бұрын

never sell it

Beautiful AKAI Drew amazing Sounds,Very nice 👍🏻

I love your music mix

That has a nice crisp sound

Ahhh yours is so clean!!! Mine has after market eq knobs and the original cover is missing. Its got the silver face but its pretty beat up. Still sounds great though haha

I wish i have like this amp one of best ever akai made my friend had one

Can you do a vs test between this and Sansui ?

I have the earlier AKAI AM2800 through vintage JBL4312A's monitors.... absolutely outstanding clean/crisp punch even by todays standards. in my view, anything AKAI is highly under-rated !

@vintagestereo

2 ай бұрын

Akai made many cheap items too and that was the reason why this brand was not seen as a high end brand but the AA-1175, aa-1200, am-2800, am-2850 and am-2950 are the ones with exceptional sound quality comparable with the top of the line marantz and pioneer devices from the 70's

@dirtlump

2 ай бұрын

@@vintagestereo Agreed.... and I would suggest the definitive delineation of quality in AKAI products between the early/mid 1970's up to ~1980 should be highlighted versus their 80's in my view 'inferior' AKAI brethren namesakes.

@RoderikvanReekum

2 ай бұрын

​​@@dirtlumpAkai clarity from the 80's was still quite nice but maybe not as good as they did in the 70's. Although there speakers were not great I think.

@theaustralianconundrum

2 ай бұрын

@@vintagestereo Wow you are losing a lot of weight!?

@vintagestereo

2 ай бұрын

@@theaustralianconundrum this is recorded 6 months ago, i lost 7 kilo since

That thing sounds pretty clean is it transistor drive or chip..? Its not bad..but your vu meter has a stickey needle easy to fix you have to take the meter out and put a small drop oil on the armature where the needle attaches but you have to watch not to touch the needle or git oil on the coil..

I hope now you understand me why I kept my Sony str-...(1971) and I have sold the Sony ta-f ... (1992) .

@vintagestereo

2 ай бұрын

yes you are wright, new is not better

what speaker are you suing sir. thank you.

@vintagestereo

2 ай бұрын

Heco the statement

Looks like nice amp what is it output in 4ohms

@vintagestereo

2 ай бұрын

Not sure

🙏🙌🙏🙌🙏🙌👂👂👂👌

Old amplifier or Built With high quality Heavy parts And built to Last . That's the difference. If you purchased a new amplifier to get the same sound you would have to spend about $4000 two $6000 In the meantime the old amplifier only costs you about $900. Back into 80s

@vintagestereo

2 ай бұрын

yep the risk is to big in case you can't repair a new model. Vintage amps are always repairable

Nice amplifier

That this old junk is so expensive nowadays! 🙃 Could be even better with a revision on it.