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A personal stereo, or personal cassette player, is a portable audio player for cassette tapes. This allows the user to listen to music through headphones while walking, jogging or relaxing. Personal stereos typically have a belt clip or a shoulder strap so a user can attach the device to a belt or wear it over their shoulder.
A main feature was its advertised running time of 40 hours, when using low-quality format settings, i.e., 48 kbit/s ATRAC3 files, and no player-based audio enhancements (although the player does include these). Playback of 128 kbit/s MP3s was rated at 30 hours.
Panasonic Stereo Cassette Player RQ-JA63. The first portable audio player available to the general public, the Sony Walkman, was introduced in 1979 and sold very well.It was much smaller than an 8-track player or the earlier cassette recorders, and was listened to with stereophonic headphones, unlike previous equipment which used small loudspeakers.
The first boombox was developed by the inventor of the audio compact cassette, Philips of the Netherlands.Their first 'Radiorecorder' was released in 1966. The Philips innovation was the first time that radio broadcasts could be recorded onto cassette tapes without the cables or microphones that previous stand-alone cassette tape recorders required.
By 1999, 20 years after the introduction of the first model, Sony sold 186 million cassette Walkmans. [26] Portable compact disc players led to the decline of the cassette Walkman, [27] which was discontinued in Japan in 2010. [28] The last cassette-based model available in the US was the WM-FX290W, [29] [30] which was first released in 2004. [31]
A Nakamichi 550. Portable, though the size and weight of an early VCR. The Nakamichi 550 was a portable cassette recorder that had three microphone inputs: one for left channel, one for right channel, and one for a center blend channel. This recorder could run from batteries or AC and was used to make high quality recordings in the field.