Teac W-525 R

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Manufacturer: Teac Corp Of America
Model: W-525R
Years of construction: 1992-1993
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Color: Black
Type: double
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Special features

User Review

Most dual cassette decks are pretty sad affairs, best suited to the less quality-conscious listener who wants to make a quick bootleg of a friend's tape for in-car or Walkman listening. The fact that this is a copyright infringement doesn't seem to put anyone off, but then looking at it from another angle, there are so few opportunities for radio airplay of anything other than mainstream pop that bootlegging may well be the only effective marketing tool the record companies have left!

While there are few legitimate uses for a dual cassette deck, one such is in the project studio, where clients frequently want to run off a handful of tapes from their own master. Indeed, I have a TEAC W525R dual deck in my studio for this very purpose, and like many of these decks, it offers regular or double-speed copying for a choice between speed and convenience or highest quality.

Basic dual decks are pretty limited in what they can do, because you can usually only record on one of the decks. It would be more useful sometimes if you could record on both at once -- especially if your master tape is being played from DAT and not using up one of the cassette decks.

by Paul White Published in SOS July 1996