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TEAC Corporation
Public (TYO: 6803 )
FoundedTokyo (29 August 1953)
HeadquartersTokyo, Japan
Key peopleYoshiaki Sakai, Chairman of the Board; Yuji Hanabusa, President; Koichi Nakamura, President of TEAC America, Inc.; Yoshihide Nomura, Finance Director; Satoshi Higuchi, Managing Director; Shigeshi Maenaka, Chief Director of Group; Kazuhiko Kawamura, Executive Officer; Tetsuo Oikawa, Executive Officer; Nobuo Wada, Manager of Business Strategy Office
Industryelectronics manufacturing
Productsperipheral equipment; consumer and professional audio equipment; information equipment
EmployeesConsolidated: 6,391 (as of 31 March 2006)
Websitewww.teac.co.jp
TEAC Corporation (ティアック) TYO: 6803 is an electronics company based in Japan. They have a professional recording division called TASCAM. TEAC was founded in 1956 as the Tokyo Electro Acoustic Company.

TEAC is known for its audio equipment, and was a primary manufacturer of high-end audio equipment in the 1980s. During that time, TEAC produced notable tape decks, cd players, turntables and amplifiers.

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TEAC CRC 90 minute audio cassette. Note that the tape reels resemble a reel-to-reel tape with the tape covered by a plastic covering, this is for cosmetic appearance only, and is not thought to improve quality of the audio cassette.
Of particular note is that TEAC produced an audio cassette with tape hubs reels that resembled reel-to-reel tape reels in appearance. Many manufactures of the time used these TEAC cassettes in advertisements of their tape decks because the TEAC cassettes looked more professional than standard audio cassettes, and because reel-to-reel tape recordings were known to be of higher quality than cassette recordings.

TEAC still produces various audio equipment that has little or nothing to share with the prestigious name, and has a well respected high end division, called "Esoteric."

On the digital data side of the business, TEAC produces DVD±R and DVD±RW recorders, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, hard disc, floppy disk, and USB flash drives.

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The TEAC 2340, a popular early (1973) home multitrack recorder, four tracks on ¼ inch tape.


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TASCAM is the professional audio division of TEAC Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and is credited as the inventor of the Portastudio, the first cassette-based multi-track home studio recorders.
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cassette deck is a type of tape recorder for playing or recording audio compact cassettes. A deck was formerly distinguished from a recorder as being part of a stereo component system, while a recorder had a self-contained power amplifier and speakers.
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Edison cylinder phonograph ca. 1899]] The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s.

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amplifier is any device that will use a small amount of energy and convert it to a larger amount of energy. In popular use, the term today usually refers to an electronic amplifier, often as in audio applications.
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Compact Cassette

Typical 60-minute Compact Cassette
Media type: magnetic tape
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Reel-to-reel, open reel tape recording is the form of magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording medium is held on a reel, rather than being securely contained within a cassette.
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tape recorder, tape deck, reel-to-reel tape deck, cassette deck or tape machine is an audio storage device that records and plays back sound using magnetic tape, either wound on a reel or in a cassette, for storage.
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