Vinyl's surging popularity is covered ad nauseam in mainstream media; the Audiophiliac ponders the rise of the other major consumer analog audio format, the cassette. Ex-movie theater projectionist ...

Musicians and fans have developed a new taste for an old format, but manufacturers largely stopped making players. Listeners are finding creative (and vintage) solutions. By Marc Hogan When Taylor ...

Classic cassette tapes may not be as trendy as vinyl or even CDs but they’re still making some noise. According to recent reports, sales of the analog audio format have increased each of the last ten ...

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 ...

Inside a cassette is a long spool of plastic tape covered with a magnetic medium that holds the recording as analog magnetic ...

The 202MKVIII, with its USB interface, can make quick work of digitizing a tape collection. And the ability to press a button and record stuff is still quite useful. Many of us have held on to our ...

Professional tape delay units are great fun, but often expensive. You’d think that with so many derelict cassette decks filling the world’s dumpsters someone must have figured out a way to make a ...

A friend of mine had a performance tape cut some years back that he sells and uses as a demo of his work. He is running out of tapes now and wants me to convert his tape to audio CD format. Besides ...

Crosley, makers of the “good enough” record players you see in Urban Outfitters and Target, have turned their retro novelty eye on the next obvious format: cassettes. These two new decks from the ...