The Sony TC-2850SD (1973) was the world's first stereo portable compact cassette recorder. Its portability, high quality, and relative affordability sparked the 'Namaroku boom' of amateur field recording across Japan in the 1970s, with people collecting sounds of transportation, wildlife, etc.
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