RCVR: Akai AS-1080DB Quadraphonic Receiver

[Quadrockasaurus]

If you have any more photo's or comments to make on this Quadraphonic unit please feel free to post them in this thread....

Akai AS-1080DB Quadraphonic Receiver

Rarity: SCARCE
Average Sale Price: $250.00
These tend to turn up in groups. None for a while...and then a whole bunch will turn up. A few have turned up in Australia in the last year and a half and sold for approximately the amount I've listed. There are however a couple of VERY expensive ones currently listed in the UK & Australia.
I'd be patient, you can usually pick these up fairly inexpensively.

Top of this line and one of the very last (..The Telefunken TRX-3000 might have been the last) of the big-ass Quad Receivers released. Probably the most modern looking of the classic 70's units. Replaced the AS-980. Released in approximately 1976. The Similar looking Model AS-1070 was just below it in the range.

SQ & CD4 Decoding included. A Dolby Decoder..hence the "DB". 4x40Watts RMS......still looks great.

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[Disclord]

Oh, how I wish receivers still looked like this. It's amazing looking. Plus, it not only has CD-4 and SQ with Logic but double Dolby, for the front and rear channels, which I can't recall seeing before on a Dolby equipped Quad receiver. So the Double Dolby could be used with Q4 tapes and Q8 too. How awesome.

I wonder how well it actually performed in basic sound quality as well as CD-4 demodulation and SQ Logic decoding?

 

[Doug G.]

It is very, very beautiful.

Say what you will about the seventies but the HiFi manufacturers' designers had it all together.

I'm sure it would have an advanced CD-4 demod. since it was realeased in 1976. Very late.

 

[Quadrockasaurus]

Most recent sale here in Oz (FEB 2013)...$237.50AU...Akai AS-1080DB Classic 70s Quadraphonic SQ Audiophile Receiver HUGE! 80W PC | eBay...a reasonable amount, still hovering around the average price I mentioned 2 years ago...I didn't see this one till a did a completed listings search, bummer.