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Encyclopedia > Cassette recorder

A cassette deck is a player, or player/recorder, for compact audio cassettes. When first introduced these devices were typically separate components, but more recently they come bundled in other components, and the term is no longer widely used. Cassette player and cassette recorder are synonyms.


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Cassette Recorders/Players (288 words)
The Wireless Cassette Recorder/Player provides cord-free audio transmission to its infrared headphone receivers and can also be used as a traditional wired listening center for up to seven...
Califone cassette recorder/players became the school standard when we first introduced the medium to schools over 40 years ago.
The world's first cassette recorder/player with wireless playback for example does away with restrictive cords for unencumbered listening.
Compact Cassette: Information from Answers.com (4442 words)
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.
Most cassettes were sold blank and used for recording (dubbing) the owner's records (as backup or to make mixtape compilations), their friends' records or music from the radio.
Cassettes were also a boon to people wishing to tape concerts (unauthorized or authorized) for sale or trade, a practice tacitly or overtly encouraged by many bands with a more counterculture bent such as the Grateful Dead.
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