Check out a spy movie from the 1960s or ’70s, and chances are the hero’s bachelor pad is furnished with an impressive stereo system featuring an analog tape deck. No other piece of hi-fi gear has as ...

One question, however, has been resolved: tape or vinyl? Even the most dubious critics find no ambiguity here. The verdict: tape sounds better than vinyl. Period. Not the cassette tapes of Walkman era ...

WASHINGTON, April 8, 2020 — Crooner Bing Crosby knew a thing or two about sound. In 1947, recognizing that recorded music sounded better on magnetic reel-to-reel tape than on vinyl records, he ...

The Analog Audio Design TP-1000 Reel-to-Reel Deck will hit your wallet hard at $20,000 and is playback only. With that in mind, Analog Audio Design, has been getting a lot of attention for its $20,000 ...

Nashville, TN, – Harrison Audio, the legendary company behind decades of groundbreaking studio innovations, announces its ...

At heart, 3D printers are just machines that can melt plastic “wire” into interesting shapes. It’s well-known and oft-lamented that plastic of various sorts has been used to make all manner of ...

The TP-7 is an expensive nostalgia trip, but I want it anyway. The TP-7 is an expensive nostalgia trip, but I want it anyway. is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet ...

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Much of America’s musical heritage is stored on artists’ studio tapes. But as they age, many of those reels are slowly deteriorating … … putting work by 20th ...

Piers Hemmingsen owns two high-quality audio tapes of one of the Fab Four's Toronto concerts. So who will buy, for how much — and will the public ever get to hear it? By Karen Bliss The owner of two ...

With more than 40 years of audio, preserving and archiving the hundreds of interviews, reports, specials, and programs produced by NPR is no small task. It gets even more complicated when old ...

In our no-nonsense journey through the world of audio technology we’ve so far have looked at digital audio and the vinyl disk recording. What’s missing? Magnetic tape, the once-ubiquitous recording ...