Akira Nakamura

Speaker designer since 1965, he led the development of a wide variety of commercial audio speakers, the most famous being the Yamaha NS-10M studio reference monitors, which he developed in 1987. Nakamura placed great emphasis on designing speakers with excellent fundamental physical characteristics - an even acoustic-pressure frequency response and good distortion. He worked to ensure faithful sound reproduction and achieve sufficient midrange clarity, as well as provide good sound separation, a sense of three-dimensional depth and focus. Retired in January 2007