Sony TC-K 661 S
Specifications
Model
- Stereo Cassete Deck Sony TC-K661S
- Years of manufacture:1995-96
- Color: Black
- Power consumption: 21 W
- Dimensions: 430 x 123 x 310 mm
- Weight: 4.4 kg
- Purchase price: about 600 DM
Connections:
- Inputs: 1
Line in - Cinch (phono jacks), Sensitivity 0.16V, Impedance 47kΩ
- Outputs: 2
- Line out- Cinch (phono jacks), output voltage 0.5V at 47kΩ,
- Headphones output (output power 0-3mW at 32Ω, not adjustable)
Technical Data
- Audio heads: 3 - erase head (F&F), record (SD), playback(SD).
- 3 motors: Capstan motor(DC servo), Reel motor (DC motor), Servo motor (DC motor)
- S/N ratio (Dolby NR off):
- Type IV: 61dB,
- Type II: 59dB,
Type I: 57dB
- improved height dynamics (aproximate values):
- with Dolby B NR: 5dB at 1kHz; 10dB at 5kHz.
with Dolby C NR: 15dB at 500Hz; 20dB at 1kHz
- with Dolby S NR: 10dB at 100Hz; 24dB at 1kHz
- Distortion factor:
- 0.4% (Type I, 160nWb/m, 315Hz, 3rd H.D.).
1.5% (Type IV, 250nWb/m, 315Hz, 3rd H.D.)
- Frequency response (Dolby NR off)
- Type IV (SONY METAL): 20-20,000Hz (±3dB, IEC), 20-16,000Hz [±3dB (-4dB recording)]
Type II (SONY HIGH): 20-18,000Hz (±3dB, IEC)
- Type I (SONY NORMAL): 20-17,000Hz (±3dB, IEC).
- Coincidence fluctuations:
- ±0.065% (IEC)
- 0.045% W.RMS (NAB)
- ±0.12% (DIN)
- Fast forward and rewind time during rewind: approx. 90 sec. (with SONY C60 cassette)
Features
3-head cassette deck with rear tape control (with monitor button)
3 motors, one of them servo motor
motorized cassette compartment
Dolby B, C and also Dolby S, Dolby HX Pro
green glowing cassette compartment illumination
- Single Capstan drive
- Title search AMS
- Electronic 3-digit counter, real time
- Prepared for remote control, sensor built in. With the RM-J701 remote control, the display can even be dimmed.
- CD Synchro with a Sony CD player and the RM-J701 remote control.
- Semi-automatic test tone calibration for bias and level, very adjustable
- MPX- Filter for radio recordings switchable
Remarks
- The unit has no timer anymore (like TC-K615 S)
- Headphone output is not adjustable (like TC-K615 S)
- Drive similar in construction to TC-K 615 S, using the TCM-190 mech. Compared to the 611 S from 1993 the equipment was "slimmed down"
- compared to the TC-K715 S built 1 year earlier ( had no successor) there is no quartz control and no sapphire reinforced drive shaft
- belts, tone heads, tone shaft (capstan) and pressure roller were the same on several Sony cassette decks (5xx and 6xx series) since 1993.
- Predecessor unit: Sony TC-K 615 S
- Successor unit: Sony TC-KE 600 S (QS)
- Other models of the same series:
Reports
- Stereo 11/1995: satisfactory, no star. "Plumply equipped, including Dolby S, but despite 3-motor drive synchronization problems." (Stereo Testspiegel 1995/96)
