This TEAC model A-170 cassette tape deck includes input equalizing controls more typical of studio equipment. The donor, who used this tape deck as a teenager, added the “do not touch” admonition in ...

The Nagra microphones sound open and spacious, but look amusingly like kitchen faucet aerators and give the unit its liquor-flask silhouette. In use The entire RCX220 package consists of the recorder ...

Here’s what happens when an empty cassette tape is used to record sound. The magnetic tape starts on the supply reel and a motor on the takeup reel winds the tape past the heads (4, 6, 7).

Replay: In the last three decades of the 20th century, when film was still the dominant medium, there was one piece of equipment that, close to being universal, was an essential piece of kit for the ...

There’s a wonderful scene in Zack Taylor’s 2016 film, “ Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape,” in which Ottens examines a display of tape players in the Phillips archive, including a telephone ...

But things could have taken a different path. In this video from Techmoan, we are introduced to Japan's SANYO Micro-Pack 35 tape recorder. The device was gorgeously designed, including a leather case.

Object Details maker Radio Corporation of America Description (Brief) This portable cassette recorder was designed by the noted industrial designer John Vassos (1898-1985). Born in Romania to Greek ...