Portable cassette recorder "Tom-401".

Cassette tape recorders, portable.The portable cassette recorder "Tom-401" has been produced by the Tomsk Radio Engineering Plant since 1971. The fourth-class tape recorder "Tom-401" was produced to replace the reel-to-reel tape recorder "Lira-206". It allows recording and playback of speech and music programs on magnetic tape of the PE-65 type, placed in small-sized cassettes. The belt speed is 4.76 cm / s. The duration of the recording is 2x30 minutes, depending on the used cassettes. The tape recorder has a pointer indicator for monitoring the recording level, in playback mode it works as a battery voltage indicator. Rated output power 0.5 W, with a total harmonic distortion of 5%. The operating frequency range of sound at the linear output and the loudspeaker is 80 ... 8000 Hz. There is a treble tone control. The loudspeaker 0.5GD-30 is used in the tape recorder. Power is supplied from six A-343 elements or from the electrical network through a built-in power supply. The power consumed from the network is 10 W. The dimensions of the tape recorder are 280x167x66 mm, weight is 2.8 kg. The tape recorder was prepared for release in 1970 under the name "Tom-301", but was not approved and launched into production since 1971 under the name "Tom-401".