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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the early 1960s, technology companies like Phillips began experimenting with condensing reel-to-reel tape players and recorders into something that could be carried around and used by a layperson.

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 ...

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?

After telling a few stories about how he built a tape recorder as a 16-year-old boy in post-war Germany, [Hans] was finally cajoled into retelling this story in a proper form, giving the Internet one ...

My first musical memory is probably my mother singing me a lullaby. It actually is. [He sings.] I think it's Brahms's Lullaby. [It is.] What drew you to become a musician? I was born in a house where ...

M & S has brought its unique design language to bear on the latest ancient audio format to enjoy a renaissance. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...