Digital files are a blessing and a curse. Sounds can be easily recorded and transferred and the files require less and less space. But the problem, Brylawski said, is they must be constantly ...

Since Sony introduced DAT (digital-audio tape) in 1987, it has been the preferred format option of many journalists, musicians, and live-concert and lecture-audience members, who want to capture a ...

David Shapton on why vinyl is not the only game in town when it comes to vintage audio formats. Nobody could have missed the revival of vinyl records. It’s way more than just a fad—it’s a movement.

On May 7th, 1946, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded ’Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo’, the company that would later become Sony. After its beginnings making tape recorders and transistor radios, it rapidly ...

The rise and fall of the digital compact cassette remains a salutary lesson for tech titans—it shows how you can get nearly everything right, and yet still fail badly. Like Britpop, whose 1993-1996 ...

In the early 1980s cassette tapes were the standard storage medium for home computer users; readers of a certain age will remember fiddling with audio jacks, tape counters and signal levels, then ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. The solution also provides ongoing voice recording management, including ...

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 ...

Love Isn’t always rational. Witness magnetic tape. The analog technology, which uses a coating of iron oxide powder on a thin strip of plastic film to capture and store live audio, was commercially ...

When you shop through retailer links on our site, we may earn affiliate commissions. 100% of the fees we collect are used to support our nonprofit mission. Learn more. In 2006 Peter Hilton unearthed a ...