Naks.com Nakamichi TD-500

This Nakamichi TD-500 is a stereo mobile tuner cassette deck with Dolby B and C noise reduction, it was first sold by Nakamichi in 1984 with a recommended retail price of USD $800 and discontinued 7 years later in 1991.

The main features of the Nakamichi TD-500 mobile tuner cassette deck are: 1 head, belt driven single-capstan transport.

Tape loading/unloading is operated motorized and the cassette needs to be placed with the side to be played facing forward in the cassette well.

Full-logic transport controls used on the Nakamichi TD-500 let it respond to the slightest finger contact for fast and effortless transport function selection.

Manual playback azimuth correction provides controls to manually adjust the azimuth of the TD-500s playback head to the azimuth the tape was recorded with so playback on the {0} is possible with the best sound quality.

Dolby C-type used in the Nakamichi TD-500 provides 20 dB of noise reduction above about 1,000 Hz, fully doubling the amount given by B-type.

Historic events

1984 The first episode of the Miami Vice television crime drama series, premiered on NBC.

1985 Sony and Philips produced the standard for Compact Disc Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) computer discs that would use the same laser technology as the audio CD.

1986 Nintendo releases its first video game console for the home, NES (Nintendo Entertainment System).

1987 Sony launched DAT (Digital Audio Tape) as a new audio tape standard

1988 Microsoft releases Windows 2.1.

1989 Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau built the prototype systemwhich became the World Wide Web at CERN.

1990 Release of Photoshop 1.0 for Macintosh computers by Adobe.

1991 Invention of the MP3 digital audio format