The A-800: A TEAC with features you can't live without at a price you can live with.
The TEAC A-800 gives you one of the best, most affordable combinations of precision, muscle and good looks around. It's a three head, two motor, dual capstan, solenoid-operated cassette deck that lists for less than $800.* The A-800 transport has a computer heritage ... heavy, rock-steady, reliable. The closed-loop dual capstan system isolates the tape between the capstans to provide optimum tape-to-head contact. Result: better frequency response, fewer dropouts. An ultra-stable motor drives the capstans while all transport functions are operated through feather-touch solenoid switching both on the deck and with the optional RC-90 Remote Control.
The A-800 uses a combined record/playback head in which both elements are incorporated into a single housing. What's more, the playback head is a unique "Delta" design which incorporates both magnetic and non-magnetic ferrite materials which assures minimum feedthrough from the record head and eliminates low frequency contour effects.
In addition to its built-in Dolby, the A-800 also accepts an optional dbx Type II for wider dynamic range and up to 80 dB S/N. This optional dbx interface--a TEAC exclusive--lets you improve the overall signal-to-noise performance by up to 30 dB. It's got to be heard to be believed! TEAC, First. Because they last.
TEAC Corporation of America
7733 Telegraph Road Montebello, California 90640, USA.
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(High Fidelity, Jan. 1979)
Also see:
Akai GXC-735D cassette deck (ad, Jan. 1979)
JVC turntables (ad, Nov. 1977)
FIVE MAINSTREAM SINGLE-PLAY TURNTABLES (review, Jan. 1979)