Sanyo RD-5008

Little is documented about the Sanyo RD-5008. What survives in the period press is mostly a specification-table entry rather than a full review. High Fidelity (1981, p.50) lists it as a two-head cassette deck — a hard-permalloy record/playback head with a ferrite erase head — rated flutter of 0.05%, fast-forward of 75 seconds for a C-60, and signal-to-noise of 64 dB with noise reduction. The same table quotes 30 Hz–17 kHz ±3 dB on CrO₂ tape.

A separate High Fidelity listing from 1980 (p.135) includes the RD-5008 among other cassette decks and gives an output level of 550 mV into 5 kΩ. Beyond those two entries, no owner literature, production dates, or additional details have surfaced in the archive.

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