Like Debbie Gibson, “Howard the Duck” and other pillars of the 1980s, the once-ubiquitous cassette tape doesn’t get a lot of respect today. If your entire tape collection melted in the back seat of ...

One can explain the recent boom in vinyl record sales in terms that make sense to an audiophile: A vinyl record often sounds more nuanced than music in a compressed digital format. But the growth in ...

WASHINGTON — When recorded cassettes and the boomboxes to play them upon hit the shelves of Urban Outfitters, it’s official — vinyl isn’t the only retro music format striking a chord with young people ...

Cassette tapes reached their peak from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, with an estimated 500 million cassette tapes sold in Japan alone in 1989. However, with the advent of CDs and the spread of ...

Cassette tapes were a major way of listening to (and recording) music througout the 1980s and 1990s and were in every hi-fi stereo, boom box, and passenger vehicle of the era. Their decline was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. Cassette tapes are making a minor comeback among vintage audiophiles, but they’ve ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mariah Carey 1988 demo cassette tape sold (Images: Instagram/mariahcarey;Wax Poetics) A Mariah Carey 1988 demo cassette tape has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Ledsom is a France-based contributor who covers travel. The cassette tape was created in the 1960s and became a household ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Unsplash, CC BY For a supposedly obsolete music format, audio cassette sales seem to be set on fast forward at the moment.

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 ...