Tandberg TD-20 A

Short description

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Data

General

• Manufacturer:Tandberg
• Model:Tandberg TD-20 A
• Years of manufacture:
• Made in: Norway
• Color: SChwarz/silber
• Dimensions: (WxHxD in mm) 435 x 450 x 200
• Weight: approx. 17 kg
• New price approx:
  • TD 20 A-4 (19 / 9,5 cm/s, (1980)): 1995,- DM
  • TD 20 A-4 (38 / 19 cm/s, (1980)): 2095,- DM
  • TD 20 A-2 (19 / 9,5 cm/s, (1980)): 2095,- DM
  • TD 20 A-2 (38 / 19 cm/s, (1980)): 2095,- DM
  • TD 20 A-SE (38 / 19 cm/s, (1984)): 2895,- DM

Connections

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Technical Data

• Tracks: 4 track
• Tape speeds: 9.5 and 19 cm/s or 19 cm/s and 38 cm/s
• Max. Bobbin diameter: 26.5 cm
• Drive type: 4 motors
• Head equipment:
  • 3 sound heads
  • Microphone: 0.2 mV, 0.8 kOhm
• Inputs:
  • Radio: 5 mV, 22 kOhm
  • Line: 50 mV, 150 kOhm

DIN: 0.775 V, 5 kOhm

• • Outputs:
• Line: 1.5 V, 100 ohms
  • Headphones 1.3 V, 8 Ohm
• Output meter: 2 peak voltage meters, frequency corrected.
• Frequency response:
  • 9.5 cm/s: 15 to 20000 Hz.

19 cm/s: 15 to 30000 Hz

• • 38 cm/s: 15 to 34000 Hz
• Height response:
  • 9.5 cm/s: 13 dB

19 cm/s: 7 dB

• • 38 cm/s: 3 dB
• Crosstalk attenuation:
  • > 54 dB (1000 Hz, stereo mode).

80 dB (1000 Hz, opposite stereo mode)

• Frequency spacing: 50 dB (19 cm/s) (full scale)
• Silent voltage spacing(full scale):
  • 9.5 cm/s: 63 dB

19 cm/s: 66 dB 38 cm/s: 69 dB

• Smooth running fluctuations:
  • < 0.14 % (9.5 cm/s)
  • < 0.08 % (19 cm/s)
  • < 0.06 % (38 cm/s)
• Max. Deviation of the average velocity: +/- 0.5 %.
• Extinction loss: > 76 dB (19 cm/s)
• Pre-magnetization and erasure frequency: 123 kHz
• Attenuation of one track by erasing the other: ---

Special equipment

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Remarks

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