Fisher CR-5150 (c. 1979)
The Fisher CR-5150 is a stereo cassette deck from the late 1970s. The Archive knows it mainly through Fisher's advertising and a single period test report. The factual record is otherwise thin.
Fisher's own advertising ran in Audio (June 1979, p.73). It played up the deck's styling, describing a machine that looked great up close and even better from across the room, and paired that with claims of state-of-the-art performance. The same ads promoted a timer feature that could start recording at a preset time whether you were home or not, along with a built-in clock display. So the CR-5150 was a timer-equipped, clock-display cassette deck pitched at the upper end of Fisher's late-70s line.
The one independent look at the machine came from HI-Fi-Stereo-Buyers (March 1979, p.66). Its test report covered the deck's bias and Dolby tracking adjustments. The manual specified that the left and right meters should read identically when setting bias. The reviewer found the most precise adjustment came with the right meter reading 0.5 to 1 dB lower than the left. The report also observed that the noise figures were referenced to a peak reading with at least 7.5 dB of headroom. Adding roughly that amount back gives a fairer sense of how quiet the deck's background really was.
Beyond those period sources, almost nothing else is documented. No confirmed production years, original price, or full specification sheet have surfaced in the Archive's sources.
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