A Brief History of
TEAC started out in Tokyo, Japan, in 1953. The founder of the Tokyo Electro-Acoustic Company was called Katsuma Tani. He was a young man when he started out in the world of electronics, but was very competent and determined to bring quality audio to the masses.
As the Tokyo Electro-Acoustic Company became more and more popular through the 1950s, the name was simply known as TEAC. TEAC’s reputation was solid in the world of open reel-to-reel recorders, giving a new dimension to sound due to the engineering involved. Plus, TEAC revolutionised the industry with their stereo tape recorder in the year when stereo was developed heavily by RCA. TEAC has also produced more reel-to-reels since that are able to achieve superb quality levels, even in today’s world of digital recorders.
Just a superb machine in its own league!1972 was the year in which TEAC was listed on the stock exchange, and, since the, their size grew as they became favourites as professional manufacturers and consumer Hi-Fi builders alike. TEAC were also the top of their game when manufacturing floppy disk drives because their systems rarely lost memory or caused reading errors when reading of various disks. During the 1980s they celebrated success with their CD players which were renowned for their sonic accuracy.
Up until today, TEAC has also released their flagship Reference Series of components, updating them with new designs for the Reference 600 range in 2008. Also, TEAC are on the ball in terms of Micro Systems and iPod docks, like their Aurb range which was released in 2011.
Tom Parker
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