Dual C 824 Cassette Deck

The Dual C 824 is a stereo cassette deck with Dolby B noise reduction, it was introduced by Dual in 1981 and discontinued a year later.

The main features of the Dual C 824 cassette deck are: 3 heads and no off-tape monitoring to save production cost, analog 3 digit tape counter, tape type selection with support for normal, chrome, ferro-chrome and metal 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 directly over the head block. Additionally the heads can be easilly accessed for cleaning.

Level meters used on the Dual C 824 cassette deck are analog needle VU reading meters. Soft-touch controls for fast and easy transport function selection of the Dual C 824 cassette deck.

The Dolby-B system reduces tape hiss on tapes recorded on the Dual C 824 by as much as 10 dB at the highest frequencies.

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.

• DLL (Direct Load & Lock System)