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 ...

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 ...

Move aside vinyl, another retro music format has spun back into the local spotlight. As emblematic to 1980s culture as the boom boxes and Sony Walkmans that played them, cassette tapes are back in ...

When I was just a little girl, I asked my mother... "mom, can I buy the latest Redwall audiobook tape so that I can listen to it in the car on the way to vacation?" "Yes," she replied, "but only if ...

Cassette tapes might not have the largest capacity or best sound quality, but they ooze retro appeal, as seen in the recent resurgence of the Sony Walkman. Tapping into that hipster market is the ...

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 ...

Music fans, who like to impress their friends with their collection of vinyl records, might feel out of step with hip people who are tuned into cassettes, which have made a such a big comeback that ...

Cassette tapes now appear to be one of music’s hottest collectibles, with resale prices climbing as much as 1,000%. A study ...

The audio cassette is an audio format that presented a variety of engineering challenges during its tenure. One of the biggest at the time was that listeners had to physically remove the cassette and ...