Clarion MD-7800 Stereo Cassette Deck

The Clarion MD-7800 is a stereo cassette deck with Dolby B and DNL noise reduction, it was introduced by Clarion in 1977 and discontinued 2 years later in 1979.

The main features of the Clarion MD-7800 cassette deck are: 2 heads, analog 3 digit tape counter and memory stop, manual tape type selection with support for normal and chrome tapes, belt driven single-capstan transport.

Typical front loading cassette deck with the cassette compartiment located on the left side of the deck. Tape eject is operated mechanically and the cassette needs to be placed with the side to be played facing forward in the cassette well.

Level meters used on the Clarion MD-7800 cassette deck are analog needle VU reading meters. Soft-touch controls for fast and easy transport function selection of the Clarion MD-7800 cassette deck.

The Dolby-B system reduces tape hiss on tapes recorded on the Clarion MD-7800 by as much as 10 dB at the highest frequencies. Unlike the various Dolby systems, which require encoding and decoding, the Dynamic noise limiter (DNL) used by Clarion in the MD-7800 works on playback only and reduces noise by as much as 10 dB.

To make live recordings this deck has 2 microphone inputs to connect microphones with a jack connector. For undisturbed listening a jack connector for a pair of stereo headphones is supplied. Connection to other audio components for plaback can be achieved by a RCA cable and recording from a source by a RCA cable.