Lowering time domain distortion through precision engineered mechatronics.

Many people assume that sound quality in analog magnetic audio tape playback is primarily dependent on the audio signal path electronic circuity.

In fact, a more important criterion is maintaining an invariant time-base during playback.‍ ‍This is the job of the tape transport mechanism.

Although it’s been known for over four decades that the historic, band-limited and weighted “Wow and Flutter” measurement standards are inadequate at revealing which tape transport mechanisms exhibit the lowest broad-band time-base distortion, only a few experts today are employing the superior, wide-band flutter measurement protocol developed by Dale Manquen.