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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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We're hitting 'rewind' on the Billboard archives. By Joe Lynch Executive Digital Director While the use of magnetic tape to record and play music dates back to the 1930s, it wasn’t until 1963, at the ...

For anyone who remembers using a pencil to painstakingly rewind an unspooled cassette tape, news of their comeback may come as a surprise. Along with the irritating hissing in the background, it was ...

Although the debut of the cassette can be traced back to a 1963 Berlin fair, Philips dates the format’s official launch at the company’s headquarters in Amsterdam on Sept. 13th, 1963. With the advent ...

Remember the cassette? Mix tapes and mangled favourites in the car stereo? It's back. As an art object. In 1989 Britain was a nation in love with the pre-recorded cassette. We bought 83 million that ...

Sony and three other Japanese electronics companies are collaborating to develop a way to record and play high-definition digital video on common DV cassette tapes. The fast track project, tentatively ...

Ahead of Cassette Store Day on Sept. 7, U.K. indie act Bright Light Bright Light spoke with Billboard.biz about his views on the format, why he's releasing a special gold cassette edition of his… By ...

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Back before all-digital music, back before the Digital Compact Cassette, back before even the Digital Audio Tape existed, there was a strange audio device that briefly captured the imagination of ...