" designed for dictation" are the key operative words here. From the early 1970s to mid-2000s, the cassette was one of the two most common formats for prerecorded music, first alongside the LP record and later the compact disc (CD)." From The first cassette player (although mono) designed for use in car dashboards was introduced in 1968. Its uses ranged from portable audio to home recording to data storage for early microcomputers. The compact cassette technology was originally designed for dictation machines, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel tape recording in most non-professional applications. Both forms have two sides and are reversible by the user. Compact Cassettes come in two forms, either already containing content as a prerecorded cassette (Musicassette), or as a fully recordable "blank" cassette. It was developed by the Dutch company Philips in Hasselt, Belgium, by Lou Ottens and his team. " The Compact Cassette or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the tape cassette, cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Hope you don't mind me providing a historical perspective that is very relevant and which preceded Nakamichi. So? How long do recorded cassettes really last? I have hundreds of recorded compilation TDK SA-90s that have been stored properly for all these decades. Who were we to complain in our road-trips about the source of music? We were just happy we had "music".ĭespite the fact that in the 21st Century, we are spoiled rotten that we can quibble over bit-depth of 16 or 17. When WNEW-FM played a "good" song I would dub it over w/the HK CD-401, using TDK SA 90 minute cassette tapes. I had purchased a Luxman T-12 FM tuner ($700 circa 1978) and I would be continuously (on-the-fly) recording NYC WNEW-FM radio station using the HK CD491. In the 21st Century, the results of those measurements seem 'gawd awful' but there were no other means to party in those road-trips, w/o home-recorded cassettes. The Cassette Recorders of that era were the only means of being able go for road-trips with music. Within a few months, I was able to do a sweet exchange with a buddy, which allowed me to GET TWO (2) HarmanKardon decks: HK CD401 + HK CD491 (3 Heads Ī little historical perspective is essential in consumer music recording market of that era: The CompactDiscs were still a few years out of reach, and automotive CD players even further in the future. Those years are quite fuzzy for me but I recall getting a great deal at CrazyEddie's, as I had paid somewhere near $2K for my new Dragon (cannot remember which exact model). Has it really been near 40 years since the NakamichiDragon ruled? Wow!
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