While the format's popularity pales next to vinyl, it's enjoyed a 443% sales increase in the last seven years – good news for a small number of manufacturers. By Steve Knopper In late 2020, when ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite the odds, cassette tapes are making a comeback. And one family-owned company in Springfield, Missouri is a leader in the revival. Decades ago, a commercial for high-quality cassette tapes ...

For a supposedly obsolete music format, audio cassette sales seem to be set on fast forward at the moment. Cassettes are fragile, inconvenient and relatively low-quality in the sound they produce – ...

In the near future the scene opens in the back of an artisan bakery in Brooklyn. The room, lit only by half a rack of industrial lighting in the former slaughterhouse, is full of several young men ...

Auckland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. Auckland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. For a supposedly obsolete ...