Whether you’re a collector, an audiophile, or simply an admirer of vintage technology, the Pioneer RT-707 stands as a ...

Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars is ...

For a middle-school music-appreciation class in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the late nineteen-seventies, our teacher asked each of us to bring in a piece of recorded music to play on the ...

I recently saw an article which identified yet another “trend” among those who like to follow fads: the revival of interest among the so-called “Gen Z” (born 1997 to 2012) in audio cassette tapes ...

We explore a classic Akai reel-to-reel tape player, checking its functionality and revisiting the nostalgia of vintage music ...

A couple of scrapped David Bowie tapes from the 1974 Sigma Sessions in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania have been found, but they were almost erased. Max Ochester, a rare record collector and preserver of ...

New problems are plaguing old reels, putting decades of history at risk. One man, armed with hair dryers and a love of ...

The reel-to-reel tape is from a Gaslight Cafe show in Greenwich Village in 1961, when Dylan was playing to audiences you could count in a glance or two. By Colin Moynihan On Sept. 6, 1961, a ...