Philips N2521 HiFi Cassette Deck

This Philips N2521 is a stereo cassette deck with Dolby B and DNL noise reduction, it was first sold by Philips in 1977 and discontinued a year later.

The main features of the Philips N2521 cassette deck are: 2 heads, mechanical 3 digit tape counter, tape type selection and capable of handling normal, chrome and ferro-chrome tapes, belt driven single-capstan transport.

Typical front loading cassette deck with the cassette compartiment located on the right 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 Philips N2521 cassette deck are analog needle VU reading meters. Mechanical transport controls for reliable Philips N2521 transport function selection.

The Dolby-B system reduces tape hiss on tapes recorded on the Philips N2521 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 Philips in the N2521 works on playback only and reduces noise by as much as 10 dB.

Connection to other audio components for plaback can be achieved by a cable and recording from a source by a cable.

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