but this comes at the expense of the overall performance quality. Most of the cheaper decks today are going to break down under the constant use of tape traders. Here are my very biased suggestions on ...

A Western cassette deck mechanism would have been a much more sketchy affair than the substantial Soviet one, and its motor would have been a DC part with a simple analogue speed controller rather ...

As vintage audio continues its renaissance, only one hi-fi company is making modern players for this classic format.

Open Cassette Deck of Old Tape Recorder ... on advanced 6-head VCR Control buttons of an advanced 6-head VCR where the sound is recorded in Hi-Fi quality and you can adjust the recording level of each ...

In 2023, sales reached a two-decade high. Part of the reason ... and with a certain sound quality.” As the popularity of cassette tapes continues to trend upward, more and more people are investing in ...

When setting recording levels on the cassette deck a standard cassette at a low bias setting should not peak higher than 0 VU. Chrome tapes at high bias setting can record a signal +3 db above 0 VU, ...

Sony cassette decks use an electric motor to propel the tape through the player and across the tape heads that reproduce audio. The motor moves the tape gears and cogs with a rubber drive belt that ...

If Spotify killed the iTunes star, and vinyl is increasingly a high-priced luxury item ... Though the last new car to be factory-equipped with a cassette deck was reportedly a 2010 Lexus ...

Thanks to the use of tape decks in automobiles ... the lifespan of all magnetic tape is 10 to 30 years, with a low-quality cassette lasting ten years and a high quality tape lasting longer. Such short ...

[Matsound] has made a tape delay using an old tape deck and regular cassette tapes. The core of the build is a portable 3-head cassette recorder, in this case a Marantz PMD430. The circuit has bee ...