Audio Cassette (MC)

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An audio Cassette also known as Music cassette (MC) uses a magnetic tape recording format to record audio. Audio cassettes come in two forms, either pre-recorded or blank and empty. The word cassette is a French word, which itself means a little box, rectangular in shape. A famous company known as Phillips was the first one to come up with the music cassette idea, but as time passed, its huge mass production was done all over the world. In order to listen to the music stored in these cassettes, one has to buy a Walkman or cassette player that are usually portable and can easily fit into a pocket and can allow people carry music around with them.
Audio cassettes have multiple purposes to it. It can be used as a tool for entertainment as well …show more content…

These two reels along with their reel hubs are located beside each other. When an audio cassette is played, the tape rolled around the supply reel hub is transferred to the take up reel hub, which can be seen through the window located right in the middle of both reels. These spools and other related parts are held inside a protective plastic shell. The Cassette shell is a cover that holds the entire mechanism together as well as protect all other components and from the environment. The other major parts include erase head, Pressure Head, Capstan, Playback Head and Tape Guide. Erase head uses an electromagnet that operates at a constant frequency to erase any information recorded in the past on the tape. Erase head is helpful to reuse the tape to record any other sound on it. Pressure head pushes the magnetic tape against the playback head, to play the sound when inserted in the player. This tape is then pulled by a metal rod known as Capstan. The coil that detects the magnetic frequency of a tape when played, and converts the signals into a sound is called playback head. This read tape is then rolled around the take up reel, by the help of tape guide that are two rotating wheels located on the top right and left corner and guides the magnetic tape from one reel to another. These tape guide also help in fast

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