The best audio equipment was compiled to most accurately capture the vivacious quality of jazz. Since Dr. Uchida was accustomed to live jazz performances, he maintained high standards of sound quality. The audio equipment that he used, therefore, was the best of its kind for jazz in the 1960s.
The system is made up of an Ortofon SUP-A cartridge, SME arm,
Fairchild belt-drive turntable, vacuum tube Marantz model 7 pre-amp,
a model 8B power amp with 35W+35W power, and Electro-Voice Patrician
800 speakers. When the music called for a change in mood, the
pre-amp was replaced with a JBL SG520.
Tapes were played on an Open Real TEAC 505, an Ampex 2000, and a Nakamichi Model 1000 tape recorder. When played in the 355 ft2 specially-designed audio room (the Doctor's Studio), listeners could listen to jazz with the best quality sound.

The American-made Electro-Voice Patrician 800 is the signature piece of equipment in Dr. Uchida's audio system.
In the mid-1960s, only individual speaker units and not complete original systems were imported, so systems were assembled from individual pieces and set up in domestically produced enclosures. Per Dr. Uchida's request, Mr. Kisaku Kondo, then President of the Kondo Furniture Manufacturing Company in Odaka-cho, Aichi, built an enclosure. He built it according to a blueprint but was stuck when it came to complicated details, so Dr. Uchida himself drove his Porsche all night to Kamakura to ask Mr. Shuzo Aoki, a top audio critic, for assistance. The following morning, Dr. Uchida returned and construction resumed until the Patrician 800 was complete. The enclosure's exterior is made of spotless teak wood with an oil finish to match the DoctorŐs Studio interior.
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