PHILIPS N4520 (1979) - Truly Professional Results

King of PHILIPS tape recorders, this is the PHILIPS N4520 reel to reel tape recorder introduced to the market at the end of 1978 begining of 1979. This high quality 3 motor 3 head tape recorder was available both as a 4-track recorder (N4520) and 2 track recorder (N4522) both featuring 38, 19 and 9.5 cm/s tape speeds. The reel drives were using direct drive motors while the capstan drive was using a belt drive PLL Quartz controlled motor. A high precision digital display was used to measure tape length in meter and decimeter. The use of FSX/Ferrite heads and a continuosly variable BIAS made possible to achive high quality recordings with speeds up to 38 cm/s. There is provision for separate microphone/DIN and line level input that can be mixed together while the sound-on-sound function could be used by home musicians to record their multi-instrumental (vocal) recordings. Accurate recording levels can be achieved with the use of two needle type selectable VU/Peak level meters with Peak LED level. For fast winding there is a variable speed control while for headphone output there is a separate headphone amplifier. Technical data for N4520: Frequency response 30-26,000 Hz (38 cm/s) 30-20,000 Hz (19 cm/s) Signal to noise: 64 dB (38/19 cm/s) Dimensions: 530 W x 527 H x 230 D mm Weight: 25 kg.

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