Elcaset is a short-lived audio format jointly developed by Sony, Panasonic, and Teac in 1976, building on an idea introduced 20 years earlier in the RCA tape cartridge. [citation needed]

2012年9月6日 · The Elcaset was a SONY-driven consumer analog tape format introduced in 1977 (TEAC, Technics, and JVC also marketed compatible decks). Essentially, Elcaset was a large cassette tape (approx. the size of a Beta) that used 1/4″ (rather than 1/8″) tape, plus it ran at 3.5 (rather than 1.75) IPS and used VCR-like extra-shell tape handling.

2022年6月8日 · The Elcaset technology was designed to combine reel-to-reel performance with cassette convenience. Because the 1/4″ tape inside is double the width of compact cassettes, the term “Elcaset” could simply mean “L-cassette” or “big cassette.”

2016年6月27日 · The Elcaset, as it was called, was an enlarged cassette that started in Japan, wove its hidden, spinning spools around the world, and then finished, appropriately enough, in Finland. An Elcaset...

The ELCASET is a short lived audio cassette format introduced in 1976. According to the SONY literature of the times the ELCASET was.

2015年1月10日 · ELCASET was an analog cassette tape based audio format developed by SONY in cooperation with Matsushita (Panasonic) and TEAC in 1976. It was intended to offer a reel-to-reel system sound quality in a convenient cartridge format.

Introduced by Sony in 1976, the Elcaset (taken from L-cassette, or ‘large cassette’) was intended to marry the performance of reel to reel with Compact Cassette convenience. The concept was similar to RCA’s Sound Tape Cartridge from nearly 20 years previously.

The Elcaset (an abbreviation of L-cassette or large cassette) was a short-lived audio format created by Sony in 1976. At that time, it was widely felt that the compact cassette was never likely to be capable of the same levels of performance that was available from reel-to-reel systems, yet clearly the cassette had great advantages in terms of ...

2005年7月22日 · The Elcaset was a consumer audio format introduced in 1977 designed to offer both the convenience of the compact cassette and the high sound quality of open-reel tape. Here are a few pictures of the Elcaset tape itself:

The Elcaset uses a thin stock 1/4″ tape running at 3 3/4 ips which does not rely on a pressure pad or have a moving head assembly, as the tape is drawn out of the shell. This format offers increased frequency response, dynamic range, signal to noise ratio and headroom.