I actually think my tech-happy dad bought one. He ended up giving it to me and my sister. My recollection is that it was not very good. I vaguely remember it eating its tapes with lip-smacking abandon. Even as a kid (I was about 11 or 12) I had an aversion to wow, and the wow I heard from the Revere was nausea-inducing. Frequency range was one step above (or was it below?) AM radio. Yeah, I was an audiophile even then, playing my classical LPs.. In any case, if it wasn't the Revere he bought, it was something equally antediluvian.
Remember Revere Stereo System?
Time to clean up the house. I had a box of old magazines documenting the JFK assassination. The December 6th, 1963 Life Magazine edition was on top. I opened page 140 and there was a full page add for Revere-Wollensak Division, a 3M company. “…Exciting new revere stereo tape cartridge system…A child can operate this amazing machine.” The cartridges could be stacked and played up to 15 hours without human intervention .
For the life of me, I cannot remember these cartridges or ever seeing their player. Anybody still have one? What was the sound quality?
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