6155 Cassette Deck
Date of manufacture : Jan 85 - Jun 88
Please note that this document contains the text from the original product brochure, and some technical statements may now be out of date
THE FIRST SEMI-PROFESSIONAL CASSETTE DECK FROM NAD
The NAD 6155 is the finest cassette deck NAD has ever designed. Its outstanding performance, in both recording and in playback, places it on a par with the best cassette decks on the market - machines costing hundreds of dollars more than the 6155. How can such performance be achieved at the 6155’s modest cost? NAD concentrates its engineering budget entirely on those aspects of design and manufacturing that affect the audible performance of the recorder, while omitting cosmetic frills and features that have little or nothing to do with how well the machine reproduces the true sound of music. The NAD 6155’s superior performance is derived mainly from three design elements. One is an NAD “first,” and the other two are found in only a few other cassette decks costing far more than the 6155.
A CLOSER LOOK:
Published specifications and test reports confirm that many cassette recorders can deliver accurate, wide- range response under ideal
•Different brands of tape vary widely in
•Because of the slow speed of cassette recording, tape saturation at high frequencies is a universal problem.
•At the slow speed of cassette playback,
•Treble losses may occur if a tape is accidentally exposed to the magnetic field of a loudspeaker, an amplifier’s power transformer, or a magnetised tape head.
•Despite the standardisation of 120 and 70 microsecond playback equalisation for cassette decks, there are significant
THREE STATE-OF-THE-ART FEATURES:
1. PLAY TRIM - A FIRST FROM NAD
The NAD 6155 is the first cassette deck to feature the new Play Trim circuit, an innovation that corrects the