Elcaset - Wikipedia
Elcaset is a short-lived audio format jointly developed by Sony, Panasonic, and Teac in 1976, building on an idea introduced 20 years earlier in the RCA tape cartridge. [citation needed]
Forgotten Formats: The Elcaset - Preservation Sound
Sep 6, 2012 · The Elcaset was a SONY-driven consumer analog tape format introduced in 1977 (TEAC, Technics, and JVC also marketed compatible decks). Essentially, Elcaset was a large cassette tape (approx. the size of a Beta) that used 1/4″ (rather than 1/8″) tape, plus it ran at 3.5 (rather than 1.75) IPS and used VCR-like extra-shell tape handling.
Forgotten audio formats: Elcaset - Ars Technica
Jun 27, 2016 · The Elcaset, as it was called, was an enlarged cassette that started in Japan, wove its hidden, spinning spools around the world, and then finished, appropriately enough, in Finland. An Elcaset...
ELCASET - 1001 HI-FI - Vintage Audio and More.
The ELCASET is a short lived audio cassette format introduced in 1976. According to the SONY literature of the times the ELCASET was.
Elcaset (1976 - 1980) - Museum of Obsolete Media
Introduced by Sony in 1976, the Elcaset (taken from L-cassette, or ‘large cassette’) was intended to marry the performance of reel to reel with Compact Cassette convenience. The concept was similar to RCA’s Sound Tape Cartridge from nearly 20 years previously.
Elcaset - Wikiwand
Elcaset is a short-lived audio format jointly developed by Sony, Panasonic, and Teac in 1976, building on an idea introduced 20 years earlier in the RCA tape ca...
Elcaset
Elcaset was a magnetic cassette tape format jointly developed by Sony, Panasonic, and Teac in 1976. It aimed to provide the performance of reel-to-reel with the convenience of the compact cassette. It was larger than the compact cassette, with twice the width and twice the speed, providing greater frequency response and dynamic range.
ELCASET, rise and fall of a Hi-Fi tape system
Jan 10, 2015 · ELCASET was an analog cassette tape based audio format developed by SONY in cooperation with Matsushita (Panasonic) and TEAC in 1976. It was intended to offer a reel-to-reel system sound quality in a convenient cartridge format.
The Elcaset - Creative Audio Works
Jun 8, 2022 · The Elcaset technology was designed to combine reel-to-reel performance with cassette convenience. Because the 1/4″ tape inside is double the width of compact cassettes, the term “Elcaset” could simply mean “L-cassette” or “big cassette.”
The history of Sony’s Elcaset format - Gizmo Highway
The Elcaset (an abbreviation of L-cassette or large cassette) was a short-lived audio format created by Sony in 1976. At that time, it was widely felt that the compact cassette was never likely to be capable of the same levels of performance that was available from reel-to-reel systems, yet clearly the cassette had great advantages in terms of ...