CROWN CTD-1500
Price unknown (around ¥ 1975)
Commentary
A cassette deck with a built-in Dolby system.
Equipped with a Dolby system as a noise reduction system, it can reduce the tape hissing which is the destiny of a cassette deck.
The recording and reproducing head uses a hard permalloy solid head with excellent wear resistance.
This head is five times more wear-resistant than conventional Permalloy heads, and the smooth mirror finish improves contact with the tape.
Equipped with an equalizer selector switch for chrome tape.
Separate level controls level controls for recording and playback.
Equipped with a full auto-stop mechanism, the mechanism automatically stops and the operation button returns when the tape reaches the end of all recording, playback, fast forward and rewind operations.
Equipped with a limiter switch. If the switch is turned ON during recording, the limiter circuit automatically prevents distortion if a large input is suddenly input.
It is equipped with a recording display lamp, VU meter and tape counter.
Equipped with a DIN jack and a headphone jack.
Model Rating
| Type | Cassette deck |
| Recording and erasing system | AC bias / AC erase |
| Fast forward and rewind | 120 seconds or less (C-60 tape) |
| Frequency characteristic | 40 Hz ~ 13 kHz (Chrome Tape) 40 Hz ~ 10 kHz (Low Noise Tape) |
| Signal-to-noise ratio | 45 dB (1 kHz, 0 VU rerecording, no filter) |
| Distortion factor | 2% (1 kHz, 0 VU re-recording) |
| Wow flutter | 0.2% |
| Motor | DC Motor (Electronic Governor Type) |
| Output | Line : 460 mV (at 0 VU) / load impedance 20k Ω or more Headphone : 23mV/8 ohm or more (at 0 VU) |
| Input | Mic : 0.3 mv (Low Impedance Microphone Used) Line : 70mV/220k Ω |
| DIN(Rec/PB) | 460mV/0.3mV Degree of SN improvement at Dolby on 10,000Hz:10dB |
| Semiconductor used | IC : 2 Transistor : 17 |
| Pwer | 100 VAC, 50Hz/60Hz |
| Power consumption | 12W |
| External dimensions | Width 389x Height 132x Depth 263 mm |
| Weight | 4.85kg |
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