Advent Corporation was a consumer audio and video hardware company founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Henry Kloss in 1967. It closed in 1981.
An early stand-alone Advent Dolby noise reduction unit, for tape playback use only. Later models also supported recording on tape.
Advent tape recorder with Dolby noise-reduction system (ca. 1972)
A cassette deck is a type of tape machine for playing and recording audio cassettes that does not have a built-in power amplifier or speakers, and serves primarily as a transport. In the 1980s and ear
A typical late 1980s component deck with Dolby B, C and HXPro (Sony TC-RX55)
A typical portable desktop cassette recorder from RadioShack
Typical top loading stereo cassette deck from mid-1970s
Typical front-loading deck from the late 1970s onward (BASF D-6135 introduced 1979)