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 ...

While CDs are making a comeback with the younger generations, let's hope the terrible portable CD players that skipped with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Next time you go thrifting, keep an eye out for these rare and potentially valuable cassette tapes from Madonna, Pearl Jam, ...

Released in 1979, the original Sony Walkman completely changed how people listened to music. Your tunes were free to go anywhere—and sound like complete garbage. The quality of music on cassette tapes ...

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 ...

This might sound like an old story. Something old surprisingly becomes cool again. Like what happened with vinyl, the music medium that was nearly obsolete before making an unexpected and triumphant ...

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, ...