Some old cassette tapes are now valuable collectibles. Discover 13 tapes that can be worth a small fortune and turn a hobby ...

From Madonna to Nas to The Smashing Pumpkins, valuable cassettes from the '80s and '90s span genres, and one elusive tape is ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape, has died at the age of 94. It is estimated that 100 billion cassette tapes have been sold around the world since they ...

If you have a collection of old cassette tapes lying around the house, there are plenty of ways you can give them a second ...

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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Cassette tapes are on the verge of a comeback as users flock to vintage media, and these five cassette tape players are great ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Steve Stepp knew audiotapes were going to come back before you did, and not just ...

If you think of a 1960s mainframe computer, it’s likely that your mental image includes alongside the cabinets with the blinkenlights, a row of reel-to-reel tape drives. These refrigerator-sized units ...

The cassette tape is back! Or at least this is what the organizers of Cassette Store Day, held in September, would have us believe. Cassettes? Really? Let’s play along, if only for nostalgia’s sake.

The 1990s weren’t that long ago, but they can feel like an entirely different civilization to people who grew up with ...

One can explain the recent boom in vinyl record sales in terms that make sense to an audiophile: A vinyl record often sounds more nuanced than music in a compressed digital format. But the growth in ...