The compact audio cassette medium for audio storage was introduced by Philips in 1963 under the name Compact Cassette. Although there were other magnetic tape cartridge systems at the time, the Compact Cassette became dominant as a result of Philips' decision (in the face of pressure from Sony) to license the format free of charge. It went on to become a popular (and re-recordable) alternative to the vinyl record deck during the 1970s. During the 1980s, ...

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In many western countries, the market for cassettes has declined seriously since its peak in the late 1980s. This has been particularly noticeable with pre-recorded cassettes, whose sales were overtaken by those of CDs during the early 1990s. Since then, the pre-recorded market has undergone further serious decline, with a large proportion of retailers having dropped them altogether. However, as of early 2006, cassettes are still produced; blank cassettes are sold at most retail stores, and facilities for cassette duplication remain available. Cassette ...

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The cassette was a great step forward in convenience from reel-to-reel audio tape recording, though because of the limitations of the cassette's size and speed, it initially compared poorly in quality. Unlike the open reel format, the two stereo tracks lie adjacent to each other rather than a 1/3 and 2/4 arrangement. This permitted monaural cassette players to play stereo recordings "summed" as mono tracks and permitted stereo players to play mono recordings through both speakers. The tape is 3.18 mm wide (nominally 1⁄8See also:

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The cassette was a great step forward in convenience from reel-to-reel audio tape recording, though because of the limitations of the cassette's size and speed, it initially compared poorly in quality. Unlike the open reel format, the two stereo tracks lie adjacent to each other rather than a 1/3 and 2/4 arrangement. This permitted monaural cassette players to play stereo recordings "summed" as mono tracks and permitted stereo players to play mono recordings through both speakers. The tape is 3.18 mm wide (nominally 1⁄8See also:

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The 8-track cartridge is a now-obsolete audio storage magnetic tape cartridge technology, popular from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. The 8-track was created by Bill Lear in 1964 at Lear Inc. (the company of Lear Jet fame), after he heard Earl "Madman" Muntz's 1962 Stereo-Pak 4-track stereo tape system, which had been inspired in turn by the 1959 Fidelipac 3-track tape cartridge system used by radio broadcasters for commercials and jingles. The original format for magnetic tape sound reproduction was reel-to-reel audio tape ...

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Magnetic tape is a non-volatile storage medium consisting of a magnetic coating on a thin plastic strip. Nearly all recording tape is of this type, whether used for video with a videocassette recorder, audio storage (reel-to-reel tape, compact audio cassette, digital audio tape (DAT), digital linear tape (DLT) and other formats including 8-track cartridges) or general purpose digital data storage using a computer (specialized tape formats, as well as the above-mentioned compact audio cassette, used with home computers of the 1980s, and DAT, used fo ...

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Cassette may refer to: A small cartridge of some form. Depending upon the context, 'cassette' may refer to this concept in general, or to a specific type of cassette (typically the audio cassette). Such types include:- Audio cassette; normally refers to the standard compact audio cassette, although there are other forms of audio cassette, such as DCC and DAT. Video cassette Cassette (genetics) - a term used to describe certain vectors that are normally used to confer a sel

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A cassette single (also known as a "cassingle") is a music single in the form of a compact audio cassette. The format was introduced in the 1980s, when vinyl record album sales were declining in favour of cassette recordings; the cassette single was introduced to replace the 45 record in a similar way. Originally, cassette singles were released in a cardboard sleeve that slipped over the outside of the release. This was then shrink wrapped in plastic. As the cassette maxi-single was released, more intricate packaging was incorp ...

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Cassette culture was in part an offshoot of the mail art movement of the 1970s and 1980s. In both the United States and the United Kingdom it owed a lot to the DIY ethic of punk. In the UK cassette culture was at its peak in what is known as the post-punk period, 1978--1984; in the US activity extended through the late 80s and into the 90s. It was largely postal-based (though there were a few retail outlets, such as Rough Trade in the UK) with the artists selling or exchanging music on compact audio cassettes vi ...

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The endless loop tape cartridge was designed in 1952 by Bernard Cousino of Toledo, Ohio, around a single reel carrying a continuous loop of standard 1/4 inch plastic oxide-coated recording tape. Program starts and stops were signalled either by a conductive foil splice or sub-audible tones. The 8-track version simplified the mechanism by rolling the motorized metal capstan in the player against a pinch wheel installed inside the cartridge to pull the tape across the player's read head (in the earlier 4-track Stereo-Pak, the pinch wheel was p ...

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See: Sound Recording: Magnetic Recording. Tape recorder. Reel-to-reel audio tape recording. Compact audio cassette. 8-track cartridge. Audio tape length and thickness. See also audio storage for a comprehensive list of formats. ...

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ITU-R 468 noise weighting - Original research. Developments in the 1960's, in particular the spread of FM Broadcasting and the development of the Compact audio cassette with Dolby-B Noise Reduction, alerted engineers to the need for a proper weighting curve, and the fact that A-weighting was not giving consistent results. Pre-emphasis of high frequencies in all these systems was resulting in increased noise readings that did not correlate with subjective effect, and it was possible for a ...

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The tape in a compact audio cassette is only 0.15" (3.81mm) wide, but the small mass of the spools and mechanism generally allows thinner tape to be used than is practical with reel-to-reel. The thickest tape normally used in cassettes is about 16µm in thickness, and is used in C60 cassettes and in shorter lengths such as the C45. As the standard tape speed for a compact cassette is 17/8 ips and a C60 cassette records 30 minutes per side, a C60 cassette in theory holds 281¼' of tape. In practice there is some variation, for exam ...

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The tape decks of the 1950s were mainly designed to use tape ¼" wide and to accept one of two reel formats: Ten and a half inch reels, almost always with metal flanges, which fitted over a hub three inches in diameter. These reels and hubs were similar to those used for wider tape formats such as ½", 1" and 2" tape widths, and were principally used for professional and studio applications. The reels were known as NAB reels and the hubs on which they were mounted as NAB hubs. Reels of up to sev ...

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As well as ¼" tape, studio and multitrack machines used tape widths of ½", 1" and 2", and at least one 3" machine was available for a time. There was also a 35mm width. Tapes of ½", 1" and 2" width were available in many professional formulations, especially but not only formulations of 35µm thickness (the thickness known as long play when used as ¼" tape). The wider tape also made it possible to produce professional quality tapes of about 25µm thickness (the thickness kno ...

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Nakamichi is a Japanese manufacturer founded by Etsuro Nakamichi (affectionally known as "the Dragon") and later headed by his sons (the famous Nakamichi brothers, Ted and Niro). The company originally was set up to act as a manufacturer of electric household products but quickly became known as a developer and later manufacturer of quality audio products, their cassette decks where particularly well known, but in fact the company also made some spectacular other products such as the innovative record players and DAT recorders, and the compa ...

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Nakamichi - 3-Head Cassette Decks. Nakamichi was the first to use a 3 head recording technique. Separate tape heads were used for playback, recording, and erase, whereas prior methods combined the playback/recording function into a single tape head. The three-head mechanism optimized each head and was used on higher end decks from Nakamichi. Nakamichi - Flip-Auto Reverse. Called "UDAR" for UniDirectional Auto Reverse. Used on the Nakamichi RX series of decks. With the advent of ...

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Nakamichi has never held its prominent position in audio technology since that time, as they failed to move to computers, DAT, CDs and other new technologies with the same excellence that they had done with cassette recording. With the decline of analog taping, Nakamichi was unable to retain its appeal to the high end audio community. By the 1990s Nakamichi was largely forgotten. On February 19, 2002, Nakamichi Japan anno ...

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In all likelihood, the first homemade mix tapes began to appear soon after the introduction of the compact audio cassette by Philips at the 1963 Berlin radio show. Before the introduction of the audio cassette, the creation of a pop music compilation required specialized or cumbersome equipment, such as a reel-to-reel player, that was often inaccessible to the casual music fan. As cassette tapes and recorders grew in popularity and portability, these technological hurdles were lowered to the point where the only resources required to create ...

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