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Patented on March 29, 1988, a cassette tape adapter is a device that allows the use of portable audio players in older cassette decks.Originally designed to connect portable CD players to car stereos that only had cassette players, the cassette tape adapter has become popular with portable media players even on cars that have CD players built in.
Threaded tape of an open Compact Cassette in the tape drive. The capstan is a rotating spindle used to move recording tape through the mechanism of a tape recorder.The tape is threaded between the capstan and one or more rubber-covered wheels, called pinch rollers, which press against the capstan, thus providing friction necessary for the capstan to pull the tape.
AM/FM stereo radio, so-dbb bass, Dobly B noise reduction, auto-reverse, cassette recorder WM-B52 1988 WM-503 1989 WM-AF54 1989 AM stereo/FM stereo radio, Sports WM-3000 1990 WM-3060 1990 WM-106 1990 WM-B603 1991 WM-GX320 1998 FM stereo, Mega bass, tape speed control, auto-reverse, continuous loop WM-GX400 2001
A high-quality recording on cassette could rival the sound of an average commercial CD, though the quality of pre-recorded cassettes has been regarded by the general public as lower than could be achieved in a quality home recording. [16] There was a call for better sound quality in 1981, surprisingly by the head of Tower Records, Russ Solomon.
One of these is the impedance of the coil - playback preferring a high impedance, and recording a low one. In the very best tape recorders, separate heads are used to avoid compromising these desirable characteristics. Having separate heads for recording and playback has other advantages, such as off-tape monitoring during recording, etc.
The Yamaha MT-100 Multi-track Cassette Recorder is an analog tape deck developed to record artists in the late 1980s. It was marketed just before the advent of Digital Audio Tape . It allowed the variable speed recording of 4 tracks of audio that could be mixed, merged and re-recorded onto standard cassette tapes .
The original standard MC60 microcassette contained 43.2 m (142 ft) of tape for 30 minutes recording per side at 2.4 cm/s (about 15 ⁄ 16 ips, making it half the standard speed of a compact cassette). Most recorders also provide a slower speed of 1.2 cm/s, doubling the recording time but with poor sound quality.
The Nakamichi Dragon is an audio cassette deck that was introduced by Nakamichi in 1982 and marketed until 1994. The Dragon was the first Nakamichi model with bidirectional [a] replay capability and the world's first production tape recorder with an automatic azimuth correction system; this feature, which was invented by Philips engineers and improved by Niro Nakamichi, continuously adjusts ...