Blaupunkt TOR-07 (late 1980s)
Surviving information on this model is thin. The Archive holds no factory spec sheet for the TOR-07. The period reviews still give a decent picture of a late-1980s car radio/cassette unit that impressed Audio magazine.
The headline feature was Blaupunkt's take on automatic volume control. Audio (May 1988, p.68) was careful to separate it from the usual AVC that keeps an output level constant. The TOR-07 actually sensed cabin ambient noise and adjusted listening volume to match. Wind the windows down, the reviewer noted, and the set would turn itself up. The same review credited the cassette transport with virtually identical frequency response in both tape directions. It also had a program-search function that could advance to the next track or rewind to the start of the current one during fast winding.
Later in that issue, Audio (May 1988, p.70) counted 96 presets - 16 stations in each of three bands, matched by a second bank in "Travel Store" mode. It described a control panel with FM-ARI traffic decoding, a clock set/display button, the AVC switch, and a Mode button that reassigned the bottom row of controls. The reviewer liked the ergonomics too: Audio (May 1988, p.74) found the controls well placed and easier to locate than one might expect. It measured Type II tape response from roughly 40 Hz to beyond 18 kHz at the -3 dB points, with Type I nearly matching. The same issue judged the AM tuner about as close to genuine hi-fi as the band allows (May 1988, p.72). The model also appeared in Audio's May 1989 equipment directory (p.133) under car radios/tape players.
What the review record shows, in short:
- Ambient-noise-sensing automatic volume control ("AVC")
- Program-search tape transport with track skip in both directions
- 96 presets: 16 stations × three bands, doubled in Travel Store
- FM-ARI traffic decoding, clock display, and a Mode key for the lower button row
- Type II tape response approximately 40 Hz–18+ kHz at -3 dB; Type I very close
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