You are buying a Teac 450 Cassette Deck in perfect working condition. Would be fully serviced by our highest experienced technician before ship this item to you. tape and plug not included. Item may have scratches, marks,  engraved etc..

The Teac 450 are top level when came out, has biggest vu meter and slide volume control bar as Nakamichi 700/1000.

The main features of the TEAC A-450 are: 2 heads, mechanical 3 digit tape counter, manual tape type selection and capable of handling normal and chrome tapes with additional manual equalization selection, belt driven single-capstan transport.

Typical of this deck is the 70's top loading layout with the cassette compartment located on the left side of the deck. Tape eject is operated mechanically and the cassette needs to be placed with the side to be played facing forward in the cassette well.

Level meters used on the A-450 are analog needle VU reading meters with peak indicator for easy adjustment of optimum recording level. Mechanical transport controls for reliable A-450 transport function selection.

The Dolby-B system reduces tape hiss on tapes recorded on the A-450 by as much as 10 dB at the highest frequencies.

To make live recordings this deck has 2 microphone inputs to connect microphones with a jack connector. For undisturbed listening a jack connector for a pair of stereo headphones is supplied.

Description

The A-450 cassette deck is designed to be used with a high quality stereo amplifier system.

It contains many of the standard TEAC features such as selectable bias and eq, Din, Mic, Line inputs, pause control, auto end stop, peak level indicator, large VU meters, tape run indicator, etc.

In addition it has Dolby NR circuitry, Dolby FM/copy facility, FM MPX filter, Mic / Line mixing, outer rotor motor and unexcelled wow and flutter specs.

Specifications

Type: 2-head, single compact cassette deck

Track System: 4-track, 2-channel stereo

Tape Speed: 4.8 cm/s

Heads: 1 x record/playback, 1 x erase

Motor: hysteresis synchronous

Tape Type: type I, FeCr, CrO2

Noise Reduction: B

Frequency Response: 30Hz to 16kHz  (Cr02 tape)

Signal to Noise Ratio: 58dB  (dolby B)

Wow and Flutter: 0.07%

Total Harmonic Distortion: 2.5%

Input: 100mV (line), 0.25mV (mic)

Output: 0.3V (line)

Dimensions: 445 x 176 x 270mm

Weight: 9.5kg

 

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