Lou Ottens, who brought joy to many music lovers with his invention of the audio cassette tape, has died at the age of 94. Ottens started working for the Phillips electronic manufacturing company in ...

When Jody Weintraub turned the key in the ignition of the family car on his way to the prom on May 6, 1988, he was surprised ...

Music lovers everywhere are embracing a resurgence of the once popular and inexpensive, easy-to-handle audio cassette tape. For those of you too young to remember, cassettes were a music format ...

In a world where streaming audio is quickly becoming the listening method of choice, the sale of hard copy formats should logically decline. That may be the case for CDs, but not so for vinyl. And ...

A sprawling factory on Water Street in downtown Springfield will soon be the only place in the country, maybe even the world, to make the tape that goes inside audiocassettes. Yes, people still use ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

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 ...

Though digital music accounts for much of what we now listen to, old school formats like vinyl and audio cassettes steadfastly refuse to disappear. The former is enjoying something of a healthy ...

Cassette tapes and CDs are joining the vinyl-led retro audio boom, driven by listener desire for physical media as well as ...

Dutch engineer Lou Ottens, who is credited with the invention of the audio cassette tape, has died aged 94. Ottens started working for electronics manufacturer Phillips in 1952, and by 1960 had been ...

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 ...