In almost every measurable way, a lossless digital audio file is superior to any analog media. This doesn’t mean that analog audio isn’t valuable though; plenty of people appreciate the compression, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Cassette tapes are largely viewed as an outdated technology, but they're starting to make a comeback thanks to the very ...

Good ideas rarely go out of fashion… except for those boombox cassette players that we used to carry around in the 1980s. They disappeared along with leg warmers and shoulder pads and were eclipsed by ...