Pioneer T-838 Stereo Cassette Deck

The Pioneer T-838 is a cassette deck with Dolby B and C noise reduction, it was introduced by Pioneer in 1989.

The main features of the Pioneer T-838 cassette deck are: 3 heads and no off-tape monitoring to save production cost, electronic tape counter with 4 digits.

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

Level meters used on the Pioneer T-838 cassette deck are generic digital peak reading meters.

Dolby C-type used in the Pioneer T-838 provides 20 dB of noise reduction above about 1,000 Hz, fully doubling the amount given by B-type.