Metra Electronics DAT Combo Manuel d'utilisateur télécharger pdf (Page 82)

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fhesongnfthe

open

road

seems

to

have

a clear technical superiority.

Instead,

each

seems able to

provide

satisfac-

tory sound reproduction in the

car,

and at

least two of the three have plenty of music

available to match most tastes. All three can

move

from

car to home,

so

you can play

the identical

cartridge in your

car

or your

living room. And

all three, in

large

part,

became

possible

as

the result of the develop-

ment of reliable,

low

-cost transistors.

Fidelipac. The Fidelipac cartridge fea-

tures

an

endless

loop of tape

wound

around

a

hub

inside a plastic shell. The tape feeds

from the

pack's

center,

travels past notches

cut in the plastic

to

accommodate

a playback

head and pinch

roller, then

rewinds at the

outside

of the

tape

pack.

The cartridges are

recorded at 33/4

ips in four -track stereo and

sell

at prices

ranging

from $2.95 for

about

15

minutes'

playing time

to $9.95 for

over

an hour's

worth of music. Prices for

players

run from about $70

to

$140.

Fidelipac

players

are sold by

such manu-

facturers as Craig

Panorama;

SJB,

Inc.;

Telepro

Industries; Trans -World,

Inc.; Mid-

land

International;

Viking of Minneapolis;

Muntz

Stereo

-Pak;

Auto

-Sonic; Nu

-Vox;

Audio Stereo; and

Metra

Electronics. These

and

other manufacturers provide

a

wide

range of

music from the libraries

of MGM,

Command, Verve, ABC Paramount,

West-

minster, Pickwick, Audio

Fidelity,

Mercury,

Dot,

Elektra,

and a host

of

other record

companies. Prices for the players themselves

vary,

depending on

whether

speakers

are

included,

whether the unit plays back

through

an existing car radio,

whether AM

or

FM

radio

is included, and so

on.

In view of Fidelipac's lead time over the

other

systems, it's hardly surprising that an

estimated 70 per cent

of

the

car -cartridge

players now

in

use utilize this system. All

of these

units

were bought

for cars already

on the

road.

At the moment, Fidelipac also

accounts

for

better than 60 per cent

of

cartridge sales.

Lear

-Jet. Lear -Jet units are

to be found

mainly

in current

-model Fords, Mustangs,

Thunderbirds,

some

Mercurys and

Lincolns.

The cartridge

is

about

the same size and

shape as the

Fidelipac, and it is also recorded

at

33/4 ips.

However,

recordings

are in

eight

-

track rather than four

-track

stereo.

Further,

unlike the

Fidelipac four -track

units, a pinch

roller is included

in

each

cartridge. Prices

for

recorded cartridges are comparable

to

Fidelipac's, and the

catalogs include

many

of the same titles plus

albums from RCA

Victor, London,

Decca, and Capitol.

Player

prices are comparable

to Fidelipac's.

In addition

to

the

units Ford is

installing

in its new

cars, players are available

from

Lear -Jet and

Soundex Corporation

for cars

already

on the

road. And Lear

hopes to

entice

General

Motors into joining

Ford and

Chrysler

into

putting

its

players in their new

cars.

"With

the auto industry

turning

out

over

nine

million cars

a year,"

a Lear

spokes-

man said

recently, "it looks like something

between 15 and

20 per cent

of

these

new

With inputs

for mike,

tuner,

and

phono-

graph, in -home

tape- cartridge recorder

(be-

low) by Craig

Panorama makes perfect

mate

for Craig's

in

-car

tape player (at right).

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