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Published: March 3, 1987

LEAD: Controversial digital audio tape players went on sale in Tokyo today, with Japanese consumers praising the sound quality. The players are said to play back and record with fidelity superior to that of a compact disk on a cassette only half the size of the standard audio cassette. Unlike analog machines, DAT players can reproduce an infinite number of copies with almost no loss of sound quality.

Controversial digital audio tape players went on sale in Tokyo today, with Japanese consumers praising the sound quality. The players are said to play back and record with fidelity superior to that of a compact disk on a cassette only half the size"