NORFOLK, Va. — For people of a certain age, cassette tapes bring back a lot of memories -- from your first mix-tape from a significant other, to the unbelievable frustration of trying to tape a broken ...

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 ...

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 ...

Music fans, who like to impress their friends with their collection of vinyl records, might feel out of step with hip people who are tuned into cassettes, which have made a such a big comeback that ...

For people of a certain age cassette tapes bring back a lot of memories, from your first mixtape from a significant other to the unbelievable frustration of trying to tape a broken cassette back ...

When we heard the news about the death of Lou Ottens, the man who oversaw the creation of the audio cassette, it led us to reminisce about mixtapes. And we weren't alone. Readers responded on social ...

If you ever made – or listened to – a mixtape, please press the pause button for a few moments to mark the passage of Lou Ottens, the engineer who oversaw the development of the cassette tape. The ...

Reel to reel was the pro choice for studio recording (with the finished products released on vinyl or cassette, although CD rose to prominence as the 90s approached), while the typical home recording ...

For Andy Molholt, there’s something oddly special about hitting play on his boombox at the beach. The Philadelphia-based musician tours frequently with his band Laser Background and, between that and ...

I’m old enough to remember using cassette tapes but also young enough to know it was already ancient technology. But still, there’s something about cassette tapes that interested me more than CDs or ...