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2. Cassette tape - Wikipedia

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   The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, [2] audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company Philips , the Compact Cassette was released in August 1963.

3. Boombox - Wikipedia

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   A boombox is a transistorized portable music player featuring one or two cassette tape players /recorders and AM/FM radio, generally with a carrying handle. Beginning in the mid 1990s, a CD player was often included. [1] Sound is delivered through an amplifier and two or more integrated loudspeakers. A boombox is a device typically capable of ...

4. Cassette tape adapter - Wikipedia

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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.

5. Walkman - Wikipedia

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   The original Walkman started out as a portable cassette player [3][4] and the brand was later extended to serve most of Sony's portable audio devices; since 2011 it consists exclusively of digital flash memory players. The current flagship product as of 2022 is the WM1ZM2 player.

6. Dolby noise-reduction system - Wikipedia

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   A Dolby noise-reduction system, or Dolby NR, is one of a series of noise reduction systems developed by Dolby Laboratories for use in analog audio tape recording. [1] The first was Dolby A, a professional broadband noise reduction system for recording studios that was first demonstrated in 1965, but the best-known is Dolby B (introduced in 1968), a sliding band system for the consumer market ...

7. Tape recorder - Wikipedia

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   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. In its present-day form, it records a fluctuating signal by moving the ...

8. 8-track cartridge - Wikipedia

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   The 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8; commonly called eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, and eight-track) is a magnetic-tape sound recording technology that was popular [2] from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when the compact cassette, which pre-dated the 8-track system, surpassed it in popularity for pre-recorded music. [3][4][5]

9. dbx (noise reduction) - Wikipedia

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   The Panasonic RQ-J20X portable cassette player from 1982 was the first device to implement the dbx integrated circuit. The original dbx Type I and Type II systems were based on so-called "linear decibel companding" - compressing the signal on recording and expanding it on playback.