Retro audio is having a moment again. These four new gadgets mix classic design cues with modern playback, wireless features, and everyday practicality.

David Shapton on why vinyl is not the only game in town when it comes to vintage audio formats. Nobody could have missed the revival of vinyl records. It’s way more than just a fad—it’s a movement.

Having a fondness for old and obscure audio and video media formats, [Techmoan] recently revisited the Philips Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) format introduced in 1992. Despite being billed as the ...

In the early 1980s cassette tapes were the standard storage medium for home computer users; readers of a certain age will remember fiddling with audio jacks, tape counters and signal levels, then ...

Described by some as “Europe’s biggest tech show”, the Berlin Radio Show has long been famous for exhibiting the next big thing in consumer electronics. In 1963, that was the compact audio cassette, ...

When your hard drive was a cassette deck--the forgotten realities of 8-bit storage ...

Audio cassette tapes are selling well — even though they don't sound very good and they are not as retro cool as vinyl records. Hear that fast forward sound? Well, that's what happened to the cassette ...