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"During the 1970s, sixteen, twenty-four, and thirty-two track recording became common, with recording tape reaching two and three inches (5.08cm - 7.62cm) wide. In 1973 TEAC converted their consumer quadraphonic tape recorders for use as home multitrack recorders. The result were the popular TEAC 2340 and 3340 models. Both were four-track machines that used ¼ inch tape. The 2340 ran at either 3¾ or 7½ inches per second and used seven inch reels while the 3340 ran at 7½ or 15 inches per second and used 10½ inch reels. They cost under U.S. $1,000. The Teac 3340 1/4 inch 4-track recorder was used at Lee Perry's Black Ark Studios during the seventies."--Sholem Stein

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TEAC Corporation is an electronics company based in Japan. 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.

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.



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