Tape Deck

Tape Deck The mechanical element of a tape recorder, nearly always the open-reel design, rather than a cassette version, including its motors, reels, linkages, recording head, erase head, and playback head, but not including the electronic components and electric circuits. It is also known as a tape transport. A deck must be connected to an amplifier in order to drive loudspeakers. The use of separate tape decks arose in the early high-fidelity period (1950s), when users began to demand…