Responding to what it calls a phoenix-like rise in demand for quarter inch tapes, high-end audio brand Thorens has announced a new reel-to-reel developed with Germany's Ballfinger. The TM 1600 will ...

Charleston Sound Studios have added “new” piece of equipment to their battery of recording tools: an old analog tape machine. The MCI JH-24-track 2 machine was once owned by The Who’s Pete Townshend ...

Back before the days of 8 inch floppy disks, storing computer programs was much more primitive than even a stack of punch cards. The earliest general purpose computers used paper tape, a strip of ...

Collectors are searching for antique and vintage items related to discontinued technology -- old computers, transistor radios, early television sets, computer games and even old typewriters, fans and ...

There's no doubt that digital music formats offer a convenient way to listen to lots of music on the move. Factor in on-demand streaming services and you don't even have to worry about running out of ...

All through the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, magnetic tape formats like the 8-track and cassette were audiophiles’ technology of choice. They played high-resolution tracks, had an impressive dynamic range and ...

Electricity refined the way sounds were captured in time — adding a new dimension of fidelity to the acoustic phonograph. The invention of magnetic recording tape represented a quantum leap forward in ...