The Sony Walkman was launched on I July, 1979 and was a massive breakthrough in personal music listening. We’d never seen anything like it and I remember seeing the first Walkman and thinking that I ...

This might sound like an old story. Something old surprisingly becomes cool again. Like what happened with vinyl, the music medium that was nearly obsolete before making an unexpected and triumphant ...

There’s little that’s more hipster than an audio cassette. Its sound is far from perfect, it’s impractical, and — most important of all — it is easy to see that you’re using one. But that doesn’t mean ...

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 ...

Louis Ottens — the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape — has died at the age of 94. Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad first reported that Ottens died March 6th in Duizel, the ...

If you find that having your music in good quality, being able to skip tracks with fast forwarding and fitting all your media onto one device is just too convenient, then we've got good news: Cassette ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Steve Stepp knew audiotapes were going to come back before you did, and not just ...

I recently saw an article which identified yet another “trend” among those who like to follow fads: the revival of interest among the so-called “Gen Z” (born 1997 to 2012) in audio cassette tapes ...

The man who invented cassette tapes in 1963, which spawned the recording of countless mixtapes for music lovers, has died at age 94. Lou Ottens, while working with the Dutch company Royal Philips, ...