This is a prelude to creating an entire tape deck using the head, which you can see in the second video below. The homemade deck is a collection of small protoboards along with some hodgepodge ...

All those mix tapes your friends made you, all the wistful nostalgia of Iron Maiden and proto-emo early Smiths can be at your fingertips again with the magic of tape-to-MP3 technology. And today ...

Susanna Thomson of the Oakland, Calif., band Sour Widows still listens to cassettes in her 1998 Volvo wagon, which has a tape deck and a CD player. “I-90,” a song on the alternative-rock group ...

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 ...

The conundrum I face with the 202MKVII is that while it’s absolutely the best USB cassette deck I’m aware of, it’s exorbitantly expensive for simply digitizing a tape collection. If the ...

The takeup spool is driven by the deck via a slipping clutch that allows it to NOT turn without damaging the motor, stretching the tape, etc., if the supply is all used up. <BR><BR>If the deck ...

Live From the Tape Deck is full of stolid striver anthems; Skyzoo even bases a song on Lebron James’ controversial “Decision” broadcast (“Winners Circle”). But the album’s meat-and ...