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 the phrase "MP3 player" is all but obsolete, you may be surprised to learn that an even older technological innovation is stepping back into the limelight: Audio cassette tapes. Fast ...
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 ...
For more stories like this one, subscribe to A People's History of Kansas City on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. In the past decade music cassette tapes have experienced a revival. Sales have increased ...
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 ...
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 ...
Compared to the audio quality of digital files and CDs, analog cassette tape was kind of awful. And as YouTube’s Kris Slyka discovered, it’s an even worse medium for recording and playing back video, ...
The announcement of Tascam's new cassette deck raised a few eyebrows. Is tape simply just another type of sound in a creative world? David Shapton recently wrote a really interesting article about a ...
Described by some as “Europe’s biggest tech show,” the Berlin Radio Show has long been famous for exhibiting the next big thing in consumer electronics. In 1963, that was the compact audio cassette, ...