Pioneer T-818 Stereo Cassette Deck

The Pioneer T-818 is a stereo cassette deck with Dolby B and C noise reduction, it was introduced by Pioneer in 1988 and discontinued a year later.

The main features of the Pioneer T-818 cassette deck are: 3 heads and no off-tape monitoring to save production cost, electronic tape counter with 4 digits, tape type selection with support for normal, chrome and metal tapes, dual capstan transport.

Typical front loading cassette deck with the cassette compartiment located on the left side of the deck.

Level meters used on the Pioneer T-818 cassette deck are generic digital peak reading meters.

Dolby C-type used in the Pioneer T-818 provides 20 dB of noise reduction above about 1,000 Hz, fully doubling the amount given by B-type.

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