Our debut product demonstrated sure sound and durability, finding a home in broadcast studios and elsewhere. Functional styling by the fledgling GK Design Group added to its value.

A JA5002 woofer unit was used in the first Natural Sound speaker, the NS-20. The design attempted to incorporate the principles of the grand piano soundboard to produce a greater sound dispersion.

By applying an original vacuum deposition method used in the LSI manufacturing process, the difficulty of manufacturing the ideal beryllium material was overcome to enable completion of the beryllium diaphragm used in the NS-1000M and other products.

The world’s first practical application of the SIT (V-FET), ideal for audio with operating characteristics that overcame the sound quality flaws of the transistor. It was used in the B-1.

Yamaha earned top-class ratings even for tuners demanding high frequency technology. The CT-7000, completed within four years of the development of a dedicated measuring instrument, was its symbol.

The cassette deck market in this era was divided into two parts, portable and stationary. Yamaha sought to integrate the two by hiring the world-class industrial designer Mario Bellini.

Our unique orthodynamic headphones featured a voice coil embedded in the diaphragm. Following the style of the TC-800GL, the light and efficient design by Mario Bellini cut down on waste.

An orthodox 2-way with a 16cm white paper cone woofer and 3.5cm soft dome tweeter. Long-loved for its exquisite total balance.

Development of the electronic control linear system reduced the previously inevitable tracking error of the record to zero and achieved high sensitivity even in a short arm of low mass.

Release of the GT-2000 record player, embodying the GT (Gigantic & Tremendous) concept of achieving high rigidity and resonance-free play through absolute mass.

Yamaha developed an original LSI that integrated the complicated control and signal processing circuits of a CD player into just two units and installed it in the CD-X1. These Yamaha LSIs were widely used by other companies and contributed to the popularization of CDs.

The addition of four processing speakers to the existing stereo speaker arrangement enhanced the realism of live music. The predecessor of multi-channel playback.

* Digital Sound field Processing

A monumental series lineup including digital processing control amplifiers and superior phono EQ to meet the demands of all media, past, present and future.

The development of the Air Woofer, using the air within the cabinet as a diaphragm, allowed practical use of the AST* method. Sold as a set of two speakers with dedicated amplifier.

* Now called YST (Yamaha Active Servo Technology)

The beryllium diaphragm that took the world by storm continued to evolve, adding gold evaporation to the high density, high purity casting beryllium diaphragm to produce ideal tone. Used on the GF-1.

Equipped with Yamaha's original constant-gain phase-locked loop (PLL) modulator circuitry, it has solved the issue regarding fluctuations in the power supply voltage. On top of that the MX-D1 achieved a large output of 500W + 500W and tremendous sound quality in a remarkably compact size.

Yamaha's original amplifier technology brought forward perfect clarity in sound by achieving complete symmetry of push-pull operation in the output stage and ideal balance between analogue signal transmission and amplification.

At a time when network audio and music streaming services was still fairly uncommon, the NP-S2000 HiFi network music player was developed to play music files via network connections.

The world's strongest synthetic fiber, ZYLON®, was used as the diaphragm material. The NS-5000 employed it in all the 3-way speaker units to unify the tonal quality and acoustic velocity over the entire frequency spectrum.

Incorporating all of Yamaha's advanced audio reproduction technologies, we strove to deliver a music experience that profoundly stirs the emotions, as if you are actually listening in the place where the music was born. This sonic reproduction is only possible through a musical instrument brand like Yamaha and comprises the essence of the flagship 5000 series.

The MusicCast network system is installed in a wide variety of our HiFi audio components, opening up a completely new style of HiFi listening, including streaming playback and multi-room playback.

Yamaha’s planar magnetic Orthodynamic™ driver, which attracted attention in the 1970s, has been reconstructed with the latest modern technology. The YH-5000SE, marked Yamaha’s return to the audiophile headphone market.