Technics RS-DC10 (1992) | Digital & Analog

 

DCC means Digital Compact Cassette. It was a new digital audio format from Philips. It captures the fidelity of digital audio sound on a digital compact cassette tape. Yet, amazingly, it also can play all your old favorite analog cassettes. Pop a cassette into the Technics DCC deck and it automatically figures out whether the cassette is DCC or analog. In addition to spectacular digital sound, pre-recorded DCC tapes have a separate track for data such as album title, song and artist identification. The Technics DCC deck displays this information so you can easily scan or skip through the tape. The deck also features auto-reverse and quick track access. Actually the Technics RS-DC10 presented here is nothing but a re-badged version of the original PHILIPS DCC 900. Strangely enough it seems that the more luxurious version of this Technics model was branded as Panasonic which had wood side panels as well. Original sale price in Germany: 1.699 DM.

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