One can explain the recent boom in vinyl record sales in terms that make sense to an audiophile: A vinyl record often sounds more nuanced than music in a compressed digital format. But the growth in ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Steve Stepp knew audiotapes were going to come back before you did, and not just ...

It has been a long time since we stored software and computer data on audiotape. But it used to be the de facto standard for hobby computers and [Noel] has a great video about the Amstrad’s system ...

There’s little that’s more hipster than an audio cassette. Its sound is far from perfect, it’s impractical, and — most important of all — it is easy to see that you’re using one. But that doesn’t mean ...

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the machine whirrs to life. As the Kashmiri tailor stitches, the machine ...

I recently saw an article which identified yet another “trend” among those who like to follow fads: the revival of interest among the so-called “Gen Z” (born 1997 to 2012) in audio cassette tapes ...

The typical C60 cassette, widely popular in the audio cassette era, provided 30 minutes of playback per side at the standard playback speed of 1.875 inches per second (4.76 cm/s). To achieve this, ...

National Audio remains the only US producer of magnetic tape for audio cassettes The cassette tape was king until the compact disk or CD passed it in 1991. One Ozarks business never lost faith in the ...

For those who miss the satisfying ritual of analogue sound, the Gadhouse Miko Cassette Player is a beautifully engineered ...

Louis Ottens — the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape — has died at the age of 94. Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad first reported that Ottens died March 6th in Duizel, the ...

Let's rewind to the days before Ottens' creation. Audio tape was a beast to deal with. It was recorded and played on open reels of spinning quarter-inch tape, tape that would have to be threaded ever ...

Last year, the Walkman turned 40 and cassette sales were the highest for 15 years. How did Sony mark the occasion? With an admittedly rather good Android-flavoured music player, announced in September ...