JVC NR-1020 Noise Reduction Unit

The JVC NR-1020 is a noise reduction system with JVC's ANRS noise reduction, it was introduced by JVC in 1973 and discontinued a year later.

The main NR-1020 features are.

Level meters used on the JVC NR-1020 noise reduction system are analog needle VU reading meters.

With ANRS noise reduction used in the NR-1020 the signals of low level are compressed in the recording process and expanded in a complementary way during playback in order to reduce noise without altering the tonal quality of the original sound. In this Automatic Noise-Reduction System's process, the hissing noise inherent in tape recording in the region of 5 kHz, is reduced by approximately 10 dB.