Our Audio expert Chris Haslam gives his personal recommendation for buying a modern portable cassette or CD player ...

Q I have quite a few cassettes that I have spent many hours recording. They are from vinyl records played on a turntable to a cassette recorder. They are one-of-a-kind recordings and I would like to ...

One can explain the recent boom in vinyl record sales in terms that make sense to an audiophile: A vinyl record often sounds more nuanced than music in a compressed digital format. But the growth in ...

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 ...

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 ...

It has been a long time since we stored software and computer data on audiotape. But it used to be the de facto standard for hobby computers and [Noel] has a great video about the Amstrad’s system ...

When I bought the original Apple II with a 6K integer basic and 2K assembler/disassembler built-in, the big choice was between 4K of RAM or 16K. I splurged. But the bigger problem was mass storage. A ...

Lou Ottens, who brought joy to many music lovers with his invention of the audio cassette tape, has died at the age of 94. Ottens started working for the Phillips electronic manufacturing company in ...

The bearer of the bad news is Amber, stationed behind a strip of plexiglass which serves as an ersatz 21st century sales counter. She seems--no, is--befuddled by my request for a Sports Walkman tape ...