Hitachi D-900

Just one of those forgotten monster decks at the crossroads of 1970s design (handles, size, weight, knobs, meters and switches) and 1980s tricks (little schematics, lit buttons and rm control) - probably the best of both eras.

Very active with MOS-FET designs, Hitachi was making great gear at the time and the D-900 really shines with solid seriousness.

All things never being equal, the Record head has a 4µ gap, the Playback head a 1,2µ gap.

Other than that, specs are neither bad nor supersonic but equivalent to any other monster deck from the period : healthy and respectable.

Updated (in Japan ?) as D-900S in silver guise, then as upgraded D-980M and D-980DD in 1979.




I know I have more about the original D-900 / D-900S in some of my Stereo Sound magazines - for an update.