Consumer Electronics

WALKMAN

Stereo players offer new dimensions to portable stereo sound. Walkman is a slim-line mini stereo player with headphones, see Fig. 24.13.

Walkman type mini-cassette deck mechanisms are commercially marketed. A typical deck is illustrated in Fig. 24.14.

DC Micromotors for Walkman type and other cassette tape recorders are illustrated in Fig. 24.15. Four track, four channel magnetic tape heads for mono and stereo, are also illustrated in Fig. 24.15.

Circuit diagram of a typical Sony Walkman is given in Fig. 24.16.

 

 

Fig. 24.13 The WM-D6C Walkman features both recording and playback

 

 

Fig. 24.14 Walkman-type deck mechanism