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The Harman Kardon DC520 links Harman Kardon quality with the latest technologies and the newest features in one of the most affordable dual-cassette decks the company has ever built. This is a deck that will replace the weakest link in your current audio system and protect your investment in music cassettes for years to come.The DC520's most salient feature has to be its sound and at a time when CD and minidisc are coupling to inch the poor old cassette off the playing field that's saying a lot! The fact is though we all have boxes of old tapes lying around that we just can't bear to part with and the DC520 makes it fun to dig them out and give 'em another pull across the tape heads. Tapes that are 15 years old - rife with dropouts and fading signals - came to life again in the wells of this deck. The DC520 brings a stability and warble-free confidence to the playback that other cassette decks (to say nothing of boomboxes) can't seem to muster.Other functions include high-speed dubbing record mute (which inserts a four-second pause during recording) and a feature called Sync Reverse which uses auto-reverse to intelligently manage tape copying with tapes of unequal length. If the playback tape is longer the tape being recorded will end up missing the ends of each side. If the record tape is longer the DC520 will wait until the record tape winds to the end of its first side before starting in on the second side of the playback cassette.
- Dual-well deck
- Dual auto-reverse
- Sync Reverse
- Dolby HX Pro
- Peak-level meter