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 ...

Looking for a technically-modern yet retro-style cassette player that isn't either tastelessly bland or factory-brand tat, I ...

Is there life after DAT? Pioneer proves it with the CT-93 and CT-41 cassette decks. Pioneer breathes new life into the humble analog cassette. The three-head CT-93, the top of the line in Pioneer`s ...

This just in: The trusty old analog audio cassette is still alive. More than that, despite much-bruited threats by the digital compact cassette and the mini-disc, the analog cassette can claim a new ...

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 ...

Crosley, makers of the “good enough” record players you see in Urban Outfitters and Target, have turned their retro novelty eye on the next obvious format: cassettes. These two new decks from the ...

John Mellancamp’s recent album “No Better Than This” was recorded by the singer and “O Brother, Where Art Thou” music producer T-Bone Burnett using a single vintage RCA 77DX microphone and a ...

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 ...

Inside a cassette is a long spool of plastic tape covered with a magnetic medium that holds the recording as analog magnetic ...

There is so much to unpack from the recent news that Mobile Fidelity wasn’t exactly being completely forthright about their analog mastering process en route to sell well-heeled audiophiles massively ...

Figure 1. The standardized tape recording and playback EQ curves. The next aspect of analog tape recording is an interesting one, for it can also apply to audio transmission on long circuits ...