The humble cassette tape, beloved of 80s music lovers, may now be defunct—but it’s hardly surprising given that the once-revolutionary medium turns 50 today. The natural descendant of the ...

While CDs are making a comeback with the younger generations, let's hope the terrible portable CD players that skipped with ...

Poland's Artur Mlynarz collects, repairs and restores classic hi-fi equipment. Sometimes though, units come in that are beyond help. Wanting to bring new life to vintage cassette decks, he mounted a ...

I got an email this week from a reader asking how to digitize audio cassettes. I’m guessing he wants to make sure the recordings don’t disintegrate from old age. Also, cassette players aren’t exactly ...

This commercial product, the Cassette is Not Dead lamp, is an invitation to start a great DIY project. The €25 ($35) lamp is made up of old audio cassettes which are joined together by nothing more ...

8bit Mixtapes are simple Arduino-based sound and beat generators based on ATtiny 84s and 85s and designed fit inside old audio cassettes, or at least be about that size. Founded by [Dusjagr], [Ucok] ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) — As normal live seems to be paused during this pandemic, home projects are suddenly getting a lot of time and attention. That can include coming across an old pile of media we don ...

I have some old tapes that are pretty shagged, basically - cleaning the tape heads and twiddling the azimuth hasn't helped. <br><br>I already know how to remove tape hiss and background, I was just ...

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, ...

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 ...