Today, we live in a world of highly portable, highly functional electronic media devices of incredible capacity. The songs contained on boxes of 45 RPM records of yesteryear can now be downloaded from ...

Some audiophiles will tell you that the only way to enjoy music listening with master tape audio quality is to do so using a reel-to-reel tape machine. Audio engineer Kostas Metaxas agrees and has ...

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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 ...

Alice Cooper has hooked up with Revox to launch his own branded reel-to-reel tape recorder. You probably thought reel-to-reel machines went out around the same time as the wax cylinder, didn’t you?

When you think of a tape recorder, you might think of a cassette tape. However, [Michael Simpson] has an old Star-Lite small reel-to-reel tape machine. It isn’t a repair so much as a rework to make it ...

Steve Williams, my ever-vigilant audio guru friend just sent a couple cute links. One is for a site that archives old Radio Shack catalogs. It includes the 1939 catalog, although it is on that ...

QUESTION: I have an old Akai reel-to-reel tape recorder that recently stopped working. I need it to be able to play my collection of old four-track tapes. I’ve called around to a number of repair ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. One question, however, has been resolved: tape or vinyl? Even the most dubious critics find no ambiguity here.