OTTAWA: Considering that people now carry around hundreds of audio recordings on a device the size of a credit card, early recording gear seems a bit otherworldly. Take the unlikely Blattnerphone, for ...

For a brief period in the 1940’s it might have been possible for a young enamored soul to hand his hopeful a romantic mix-spool of wire. This was right before the magnetic tape recorder and its ...

In our no-nonsense journey through the world of audio technology we’ve so far have looked at digital audio and the vinyl disk recording. What’s missing? Magnetic tape, the once-ubiquitous recording ...