For most of the 1980s, the Sharp RT-100 and its Radio Shack twin, the Realistic SCT-35 were the cheapest cassette decks you could buy with Dolby Noise Reduction and support for Chrome and Metal tapes. Let's take a look at this "loss leader" and hear how well it performs after 40+ years.
The recording test music is a remix of Stan LePard's "Velkommen" (better known as the Windows XP installation music) from the 1998 Encarta Virtual Globe: https://soundcloud.com/stanlepard/1998-evg-flights-north-america
Time flow:
0:00 Overview
2:55 Playback tests
4:50 Mechanism & circuitry
7:30 Recording test
9:06 Conclusion
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