Neatness counts.
You are looking at graphic measurements of wow and flutter in two different cassette decks. The nice, neat one is ours. The one with the funny spikes is the competition. What is really interesting about this comparison is that the numerical specification for wow and flutter for both machines is identical: 0.05 percent.
How can that be?
The reason is that conventional measurements do not account for some kinds of disturbances caused by momentary tape speed variations. Many manufacturers simply ignore or overlook the spikes. We don't.
Because we can hear them. And if we can hear them, you can hear them. So we build fighter tolerances into our parts-such as our precision-machined reel tables and shafts that prevent cogging of the cassette hubs.
The fact is that we use a lot of unconventional methods of getting rid of a lot of conventionally ignored distortions.
We figure our most important test instrument is our ears. You can build good cassette decks in the laboratory.
But you build great one--in the listening room. That's why our engineers listen, under dynamic test conditions, to every single electrical and mechanical component of our cassette decks that can affect the texture of the sound you hear, you'll find that every one of the new Harman Kardon cassette decks has the features, specifications, the look and the feel you’d expect from equipment made by one of the world's great high fidelity manufacturers.
But you'll find something else too.
The clean, open sound that comes only when a company listens and pays attention to details that others tend to overlook. That's what makes us so neat.
Come listen soon.
Pictured: The new hk3500 Dolby® cassette deck.
Not shown: Models hk1500 and hk2500.
harman/kardon--Hear all the music.
55 Ames Court, Plainview, NY 11803, USA
(adapted from: Audio magazine, Dec. 1978)
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Also see:
Harman/Kardon CD491 Cassette Deck (Equip. Profile, Mar. 1984)
Harman Kardon CD491 Cassette Deck (ad, Nov. 1984)
harman/kardon VCD1000 High Fidelity Audio/ Video Cassette Deck (Feb. 1985)
Kenwood KX-660HX Cassette Deck (April 1988)