Philips N5631 Cassette Deck

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This Philips N5631 is a stereo cassette deck with Dolby B noise reduction, it was first sold by Philips in 1977 with a list price of USD $369 and discontinued 4 years later in 1981.

The main features of the Philips N5631 cassette deck are: 2 heads, digital tape counter with 3 digits, tape type selection and capable of handling normal and chrome tapes.

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.

The Dolby-B system reduces tape hiss on tapes recorded on the Philips N5631 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.

Historic events

1977 Tandy Radio Shack released its version of a personal home computer called the TRS-80.

1978 The first satellite in the modern Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) is launched.

1979 Philips introduced the Video 2000-system (also known as 'Video Compact Cassette' or VCC)

1980 Dolby C Noise Reduction introduced by Dolby Laboratories.

1981 Dave Smith proposes the Universal Synthesizer Interface that would become the MIDI standard in 1983.

Philips N5631 Cassette Deck

This Philips N5631 is a stereo cassette deck with Dolby B noise reduction, it was first sold by Philips in 1977 with a list price of USD $369 and discontinued 4 years later in 1981.

Historic events

Features of Philips N5631

Similar to Philips N5631 from the period 1977 - 1981