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A reel-to-reel tape recorder (Sony TC-630), typical of a 1970s audiophile device. Reel-to-reel audio tape recording, also called open-reel recording, is magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording tape is spooled between reels. To prepare for use, the supply reel (or feed reel) containing the tape is placed on a spindle or hub.
These tape formulations are not directly compatible with any analog open-reel tape recorder. The DASH format is not compatible with the only other popular open reel stationary head digital recording format, Mitsubishi 's ProDigi , which was available as 2-, 16-, and 32-track variations.
Sanyo Micro-Pack 35 tape recorder showing cassette being inserted. The Sanyo Micro Pack 35 was a portable magnetic audio tape recording device, developed by Sanyo in 1964, that employed a special tape cartridge format with tape reels atop each other. [1] The unit was rebadged and sold as the Channel Master 6546 [2] and the Westinghouse H29R1. [3]
A reel-to-reel tape recorder from Akai, c. 1978. An audio tape recorder, also known as a tape deck, tape player or tape machine or simply a tape recorder, is a sound recording and reproduction device that records and plays back sounds usually using magnetic tape for storage.
AMPEX quadruplex VR-1000A, the first commercially released video tape recorder in the late 1950s; quadruplex open-reel tape is 2 inches wide The first portable VTR, the suitcase-sized 1967 AMPEX quadruplex VR-3000 1976 Hitachi portable VTR, for Sony 1" type C; the source and take-up reels are stacked for compactness. However, only one reel is ...
Although the company produced reel-to-reel tape decks in addition to their turntables and changers, consumers began to expect portability from their music players, and BSR faced competition from cassette tape players, particularly Sony's Walkman. In the first five years of the 1980s, BSR closed several factories and made thousands of workers ...
With two interleaved stereo pairs, the track format and speed of the RCA tape cartridge is the same as that of consumer reel-to-reel stereo tape recorders, which run at 3.75 IPS. It is possible to dismantle the cartridge, spool the tape onto an open reel, and play it on such a machine.
They purchased the rights to produce recorders in 1945 from the Armour Research Foundation. [1] Webster-Chicago simplified the design and developed a recorder that sold for only $150, half the price of competing models. [2] By the 1950s it was the leading manufacturer of wire recorders in the United States. [3] The wire recorder business was ...