Cassette deck Technics RS-TR373

The device looks attractive and surprisingly symmetrical, slightly breaks the symmetry, only the button POWER. The overall design 373rd well designed, smooth relief panel transitions marked functional areas. Besides symmetry apparatus attractive by the fact that he, by the way, only in our test, there is a motorized loading cassettes. And, as a consequence, the management of cassette control buttons tied to broach that certainly simplifies the device and makes it much more convenient. For the lower price category case is perhaps unique. We must pay tribute to the designers, who managed to achieve this without the use of additional engines: only by purely mechanical linkage to drive the cassette deck lids work podmotochnye engines broaches. Perhaps that is why in the 373rd used its own tape drive, unlike most competitors who use third-party generic mechanisms. Generally inside the device looks different from other fellow test. Foundation - two original twin-engined pulling on which cards are installed, containing preamplifiers recording/playback and drivers drive. The rest of the electronic components, including the power supply transformer, themes and noise reduction circuit line inputs/outputs are available on the small board in the middle of the body. All interconnect installation is very neat ribbon cables. Now a few words about the features of our test. These words, unfortunately, is a bit since the 373rd and a little know how. Also trimmed Dolby- set (only denoisers B and C, but without dynamic bias HX Pro) and the reverse side of the tape repeats, there is control, although the supplied remote is not included. But modesty functionality largely, in our opinion, is compensated very decent parameters. Thus, according to the results of a series of measurements taken Technics sure the first prize for "low rate of detonation". Measurement parameters tract recording/playback showed quite high compared with other devices, signal/noise ratio. AFC second copy (normal speed dubbing) linear enough at frequencies up to 16 kHz (measured according to DIN 45500). Although it is not ideal and that is not surprising, since the optimization system in the device is not yet given the low noise characteristics of the 373rd can be considered well-balanced. AFC at double speed dubbing is less than pleased - "blockage" begins with a frequency of 12 kHz. High speed can be recommended only for dubbing phonograms noncritical to quality, such as pirated cassettes (joke).