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 ...

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 ...

In the age of digital media, creative minds have been finding creative ways to recycle older forms of music storage. Many reincarnations have been fashioned into easy-to-make everyday objects – ...

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 ...

Cassettes were my gateway into hi-fi. In my early years, this was my format of choice. Cheap, portable and robust, cassettes were way more accessible to eight-year-old me than vinyl records. I write ...

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 ...

A sprawling factory on Water Street in downtown Springfield will soon be the only place in the country, maybe even the world, to make the tape that goes inside audiocassettes. Yes, people still use ...

The 1980s – my music-fan heyday – were really the golden years of cassette tapes. But like their vinyl counterparts, cassettes have experienced a notable resurgence in recent years, fueled by the ...

Lou Ottens was fiddling with a reel-to-reel tape recorder one night in the early 1960s, trying to thread a wafer-thin piece of magnetic tape through mechanical guides so that he could listen to ...

If you think of a 1960s mainframe computer, it’s likely that your mental image includes alongside the cabinets with the blinkenlights, a row of reel-to-reel tape drives. These refrigerator-sized units ...

Got some old cassette tapes lying around? I thought not. But keep reading anyway, as Thanko's Cassette Mate is quite a curiosity, in a retro-useless kind of way. Looking like a Walkman that has been ...