Stereo Components In AKAI Hi Fi Tower 

I'm 59 and sometimes I feel like crying when I think about how beautiful and interesting hifi used to be I haven't had a turntable for 30+ years and I will be getting a good one when I get a flat

Really wish today's audio manufacturers can make these kind audio products again.

Wow fantastic. Old is GOLD

Был когда-то и я владельцем этого счастья, привёз из Австрии в 1980 году. Служил верой и правдой более 30 лет. Спасибо за ностальгические воспоминания! P.S. Только вертушка в комплекте была другая и стойка не деревянная, а с какими-то дерматиновыми боковинами.

Missing those days, when music system like this was dream of life. Love this one .

Perfect, timeless system. Amazing sound...

Great set! Nice to see my first turntable. Broken down now after 35 years of hard labour. Never replaced the belt, kept working fine. At the moment I'm using a Akai AA 1020, over 40 yrars olf and still going steady. Paid €10 for it and €6 for new lights. Great stuff!!

This is very cool - had the same AKAI system since the early 80s' minus the equalizer and with different speakers. Still using the amp and tuner in my workshop area. My tape player stopped working several years ago and gave away my turntable about 8-10 years ago to a co-worker. I remember it was offered in either a Black or Silver finish - I went with Silver finish and so many fond-memories - capturing the 80's Billboard year-end top 100 songs with its tuner and tape player. Today, I own primarily Denon and Polk hardware.

Love these systems...they sounded near perfect with any given track..and do miss those styled 3 Way speaker system with duct, wish such similar systems with newer connectivity options comes again in the market place.

Believe it or not, I have a pair of those SW-187 speakers in my living room right now. I have them on a vintage Sherwood tube amp, and they're quite good. The build quality of those speakers is insane, it's super high-grade plywood, internally braced, they even used the cutout from the woofer hole to stiffen the back panel. The drivers have nice aluminum baskets, the super-tweeter is a tad dated. The crossovers have very high quality components, nice big coils, quality pad pots, and what appear to be polypropylene caps. No electrolytics if I remember correctly. Nice tight bass, can be squaky in the mids, but if you carefully tweak the pads to your room they're awesome. Anyway, thanks for uploading this video it's really cool to see what the rest of the system looked like.

Love to see the old units in this great shape! Sweet sweet sweet!

Beautiful system! Akai never got the respect it deserved. Fools always assumed that anything put out by Pioneer and Kenwood was automatically the best.

Remember back then they're sale a whole matching system with the same name speakers plus the matching audio rack too 👍

My first audio equipment was an akay system,in 1978,turntable,tape deck,loudspeakers and a receiver that i still have and is working fine.

had the same components except for the equalizer and those monster speakers. Was a bullet proof stereo and considered hi fi for it's time in the early eighties. Wish I still had this system...

My first system in 82 was a package setup from “The Brick” of AKAI turntable, integrated amp, cassette and tuner with of all things Hitachi speakers, which were quickly sold and replaced with Marantz Imperial 7G’s. My brother still uses the tuner today. AKAI in the day was a great product line.....😎

I love the sound of stereos and components of the 80’s and 90’s compared of today’s compo most of them are more of bass sound

Very nice equipments hi-fi!

Lindo demais esse seu equipamento de som da AKAI. Parabéns!👏👏👏😎

Golden days of my childhood when these kinds of music systems were dreams.

Old school music sounded great on these. In Africa, only a few from the elite community owned these. Some of us stuck to our dads gramaphone!

Ни разу в жизни не слышал музыки в таком качестве!!! Спасибо огромное! )

I'm sure if the manufacturers of these sets could re-engage the production of Mini-Disk, DCC, Cd-Recorders, Equalizers and even tape decks, little by little the manufacturers would sell again. There are a lot of people worldwide that missing these audio hi-fi sets and would buy them again. Why? Because just look at this astonishing AKAI modular sound system. It's much better than any smartphone connected to a bluetooth box. And could be even better, just add to all this and do a built-in connection to bluetooth, wi-fi and so on. This will allow any smartphone be connected to modular set. We don't need to drop out the nowadays technologies (of course not!), but there's nothing as listen to the music on a modular set like this one. Please manufactures, action now! I pray everyday for this day!

Wow! that's late 70's early 80's

majestic! Enjoyed in 80's & 90's missing now.

One of the best music system I had about 25 years back during cassette days and it was dream and status to have this complete tower when these were imported in India . Still using its equalizer to enhance the music of my CDs .as per taste .... Really those were the golden days of the music and our generation ......

AKAI hermoso,que tiempos jugábamos con el sonido, tenía su escualizador gráfico, grabamos unos cassettes última generación, quitándole brilló dándole más bajo,cuadramos el volumen de sonido a un solo nivel.hoy las memorias USB con muchas más canciones pero sonido disparejo que hay que correr cuando se sube el sonido. esos sí eran mountruos de la tecnología análoga. yo tube los equipos y grabadoras a mi antojo, la mejor que tuve fue una pioner doblé cassette ya con lector de cds, reloj con encendido y apagado automático. aún la tengo de recuerdo aún que no funcione.att Guillermo Sánchez Gómez desde Cali Colombia Suramérica

I remember back then in the 1980s that that kind of stereo system was prohibitively expensive for most of us here in the Philippines and was considered a status symbol.

I used to have this exact systems in the 80s...but sold it away...:(..... this is a great hifi sets. Thanks for sharing this.

Ang ganda talaga ng vintage matibay maganda pa tunog bigyan kita ng 5 STAR

30 years old still working is amazing

Спасибо! Очень нравятся системы "AKAI": деки, катушечные магнитофоны, проигрыватели, ресиверы, усилители. Супер!

I LOVE these old hi-fi stack systems. Never had Akai, but my first amp/receiver was a JVC RX-3, with a bunch of other mismatched components; currently I'm trying to build another, but with all JVC components using CompuLink synchro. One remote for the whole stack!

Very nice system. I am currently putting an akai system together. Thank you

i'm a lucky to found a fully working state that G-40 eq from scrap!

Had this system with analog tuner. Used it for a decade+ in the 80s and later sold it in good working condition. Very Good System ! Did not have the equaliser.

Awwww.... Would so love to have one of these. Good ol' days.... Sigh.

Omg...i used to have this same Akai hifi components years back but gave them to someone. This visual brings back those sad memory...:(.....

Thank you uploading a valuable video! I remember this high-class AKAI stereo set.

If I could have one of this hifi system...I would have new lease of life. My dream come through.80's and 90's we not going to come again...the best years of my especially 90's!

I want one of those!! Music all day long!!

AMAZING HI-FI SOUND SYSTEM AKAI LEGEND

like x 1000! sublime para los que gustramos del audio vintage!

just seems that with hole system with speekers would go for so much more' It's a beautiful piece in beautiful shape' thank you for the reply I love your channel.

Nothing but the best sound came from these units, and i recon they still sound better then the crap they sell today.....wish i still had mine dammmmmmmmmmmmmmm !

Amazing system!

Excellent Sound system. I have one

Speaking from experience - Akai's vintage units from this era are an absolute *PAIN* to work on (I'm struggling replacing the belts on my cassette deck just because it's impossible to replace them all without physically moving the power supply!), but I'll admit - their design aesthetic knocks it out of the park, time and time again. Just some beautiful components in that system.

Akai !!!! I got one yet !!!! 35 years ....amazing AKAI UC5 mini components

I sold my similar system last year. It was called the Pro504. I bought it new in 1982 from Grace Brothers in Parramatta. The system was still in mint condition and everything worked.

Beautiful system & very neatly shooed 👍

Omg this one of the nice awsome looking stereo i ever seen i wish there back again thank god i got my jvc the old in good shape

Hi, That is a Very Nice Set up. Very Good Condition. Thanks for putting this Video up on RU-vid.

It's a beautiful setup.

At the time when Akai was a king..

Todo equipo plateado antes de los 80 y en los 80 eran calidad está bonito el AKAI y tiene un excelente sonido y los parlantes muy buenos

Супер система, а котейка вообще красавец. 🐈😁😁

Hermoso Sistema de audio...vacía🍻

My first stereo set, more than 35 years ago.....

very nice Akai vintage stereos

I miss those rack systems of the 80s with mandatory equalizer.

very nice system Hi-fi..and very nice cat.....

Gorgeous analog machine.

La pureza de el sonido 😌 que buen sistema para poder escuchar y sentir la música 😍😍😍

Sounds good especially the turntable. Liking the size of the speakers..

I also had one Akai music system.. It had very clear sound.. Far better than Sony..

Gratulálok nagyon szép😊

Nossa! que conjunto mais lindo e conservadíssimo! meu sonho é ter um conjunto exatamente assim! sou a moda antiga! apaixonado por conjuntos assim! minha nota pra essa aparelho é 1000!

Akai ; the rare and signature performer !

Beautiful system! Akai. Old is Gold. I used to get this amplifier for service . I Had an Akai CS-MO2 Deck it was well built.

Old school is the best school. Look at this beauty!

Beautiful Stereo

Akai is elegant ; world class repute !

The tweeters look exactly like the Realistic "Supertweeters" from Radio Shack years ago. Used them on a few different custom builds. One set had 2 x 12" poly woofers, 2 x 4" mids & the supertweeter in each box. Had to use heavy bracing to hold them together, individual enclosures for the mids (inside of the baffle boards) to keep the woofers from blowing them out. Crossovers obviously & level controls on the mids & tweets. Powered by a Kenwood 125wpc power amp. They hit hard! Redoing a Kenwood Spectrum 88 rack system right now. The KM-208 power amp is merciless on speakers. 155wpc. Ouch! Thanks for letting me ramble.✌

мужики не травите душу это лучшее что было в это время.

What a beauty. My father bought a deck similar to this one in 1980, only smaller, from AKAI. It was super quailty !!

Жаль, что мне не по карману испытать такое изящество. По-доброму завидую!

Really exquisite!

Hola amigo. Es una verdadera joya de audio análogo, gózalo y disfrútalo porque ya no hay y cuídalo porque ya no hay más. Ahora necesitamos convertidores para poder escuchar él sonido más realista. Saludos gracias por compartir

This is Japanese work of art beautifully crafted

Как же греют душу аппараты того времени, в отличие от современных плоских на одно лицо...

Elképesztően komoly cucc! 👌😲👍

Beautiful device.

Beautiful system my favorite

Super

FANTÁSTIC!!!

Is great Sistem audio. 👏👏👏👍

Napaka ganda naman talaga ng AKAI the best ang tibay pa at Kenwood

Nice setup

Simplesmente maravilhoso, adoro som.

NICE SETUP I LIKE AKAI

I love akai so much ❤️🙏🏻

Fantastic system!

Old is gold

thats a nice set up bro

Very nice machine and reliable brand.

Superb set...I love it....thanks for demo....

OLD is the gold, awesome

Great feeling ...nice unit ...

natural sound👍👍👍👍👍👍👍