With buttons designed to be thumped and the whole designed to be worked constantly and, in the case of their police interview recorders, probably by those who weren’t hi-fi addicts, it perhaps wouldn’t be a good starting point for any company trying to make it big.
It, and 2 other Akai cassette decks in my collection, still work 40 years later. Akai was already a market leader of tape products, producing good looking and very able machines with good motors and life-lasting glass and crystal ferrite heads. Like most children and adults alike, beauty on the outside was of prime importance in any purchase.
TAPEDECK ROBOT VOICE PRO
As I start up my aged Ferrograph Logic 7 reel to reel, it being created as UK competition for the Studer/Revox and Tandberg pro and semi-pro market-leaders, my mind thinks of NEAL, (North East Audio Ltd) a UK cassette recorder company set up to compete in the top end consumer market led by Revox/Studer, Tandberg, Uher, and of course Nakamichi.Īs a child buying my first cassette deck, a beautiful looking top loading Akai GXC-310D, I wondered why anyone would ever want to purchase an industrial looking NEAL, despite being very patriotic and wishing to fly the home flag. Janine Elliot continues her fascinating RetroBites series, this time focusing on reel to reel and cassette tapes and in particular the British brands NEAL and Ferrograph.Īs we now begin to see reel to reel tapes becoming (very slightly) fashionable as we get over throwing away our vinyl (luckily I never stopped playing mine), one wonders if top-end cassettes will ever make it back, if the price of Nakamichi Dragon wannabees get to saleable prices.
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