Nakamichi is a subsidiary of Chinese holding company Nimble Holdings.
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Nakamichi is a subsidiary of Chinese holding company Nimble Holdings.
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Nakamichi manufactured electronic devices from its founding in 1948 but only sold them under its name from 1972.
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Nakamichi was originally established as a research and development firm in electronics and optics but later became known as a manufacturer of quality audio products.
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From 1973, Nakamichi started to sell high-quality stereo cassette decks that benefited from the mass market's move away from reel-to-reel tape recorders to the cassette format.
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The relatively high retail price of the 1000 and 700 prompted Nakamichi to offer lower-priced two-head models, such as the Nakamichi 500 and the wedge-shaped 600.
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Nakamichi 550 was a portable cassette recorder that had three microphone inputs: one for left channel, one for right channel, and one for a center blend channel.
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Nakamichi branched out into other audio components such as pre-amplifiers, power-amplifiers, tuners, receivers and later speakers.
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Nakamichi was the first to use a three-head recording technique in a cassette deck.
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Around 1978, when metal bias cassettes came into the market, Nakamichi produced some early metal tape capable decks such as the 580M.
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Around 1980, Nakamichi introduced the third generation of 1000 and 700 three-head decks.
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Nakamichi subsequently abandoned this approach and set its engineers in search of a more elegant solution.
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Nakamichi soon developed its UDAR mechanism, which mimicked the way people had manually turned over their tapes in the past: a mechanical system that would eject the tape, spin it around and reload it into the deck.
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Nakamichi licensed "Stasis" technology from powerhouse amplifier manufacturer Threshold.
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The Nakamichi unit was the flagship audio system offered to Lexus buyers, and this partnership lasted from 1989 to 2001.
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In 1990, Nakamichi introduced the music bank in its CD players which was based on a single loading tray concept with a total capacity of 7 CDs.
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Nakamichi further enhanced the music bank system in its 1992 offering touting the quickest changer in the market.
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Nakamichi attempted to counter the loss with its receivers touting Harmonic Time Alignment.
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Nakamichi researchers discovered that the human ear is much more tolerant of harmonic distortion if the distortion components are time-aligned with respect to the primary signal.
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The lack of innovative digital technology meant Nakamichi was unable to successfully brand itself in the digital age.
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Niro Nakamichi left in 1998 to set up Mechanical Research Corporation.
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From 2011, Nakamichi offered a complete line of mass market audio products, including earbuds, headphones, speakers, wireless speakers and sound bars.
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In 2018, Nakamichi added 4 more models into its Shockwafe lineup, incorporating dual subwoofers, quad modular surround speaker technology and DTS:X compatibility.
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In 2019, Nakamichi released 3 new Shockwafe soundbar models, the Shockwafe Ultra 9.
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