tape deck

noun

: a device used to play back and often to record on magnetic tape that usually has to be connected to an audio system

Example Sentences

a stereo system that includes a tape deck

Recent Examples on the Web That was 40 years ago, before satellite radio or Bluetooth; our vintage Toyota wagon didn’t even have a tape deck. —

Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2022 One particularly lovely detail is that the previous owner chose to retain the vehicle’s original Panasonic tape deck. —

Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 27 May 2022 While working as a court reporter, Gray also began collaborating with Alfredo Villar, the bassist and songwriter with seminal Atlanta group the Fans, recording songs on a four-track tape deck, to which Price would add guitar. —

Bo Emerson, ajc, 19 Oct. 2021 The rooms are packed with analog gear that Vogelman has been collecting since the 1980s, including a Studer 2-inch tape deck, the kind of machine that studios were ditching 10 years ago. —

Sasha Frere-jones, Billboard, 28 Jan. 2019 That company, the suit says, developed a campaign in which the sleek Juul device was shown alongside obsolete technologies like a massive cellular phone or a boombox with a tape deck. —

Evan Simko-bednarski, CNN, 13 Feb. 2020 The celebration included dancing by the Honey Bears cheerleading squad and guard Revie Sorey controlling the tape deck. —

Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019 Chained to the desk next to them were cheap cassette tape decks. —

Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2019 The beautifully designed, easy-to-use TPS-L2 was the device that liberated the cassette from living room hi-fis and car tape decks to truly make music portable. —

Mike Murphy, Quartz, 3 July 2019 See More

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