Akai is a consumer electronics brand, founded by Saburo Akai as Akai Electric Company Ltd., a Japanese manufacturer in 1929. It is now headquartered in Singapore as a subsidiary of Grande Holdings, a Chinese Hong Kong-based conglomerate, which also owns the formerly Japanese brands Nakamichi and Sansui. "Akai" means red, hence the logo color, earlier also accompanied by a red dot.
The manufacturer's products included reel-to-reel audiotape recorders (most notably, the GX series), tuners, audio cassette decks (top level GX, mid level TC, HX and CS series), amplifiers (top level AM and mid level TA series), video recorders and loudspeakers. Akai is also generally regarded to have built the best 8-track player/recorders that were popular during the 1970s.
