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 ...

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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 ...

For two decades, Andrei Klimenko has been amassing a collection of Soviet-era reel-to-reel tape recorders for a small museum ...

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 ...

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 ...

Open Reel Ensemble doesn't play conventional instruments, like guitars, drums and keyboards. Instead, the Japanese band uses reel-to-reel tape recorders built by Pioneer and TEAC in the 1970s and '80s ...

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.

If this year turns out to be epochal in the history of tape recording, as it may, it will not be by reason of any awesome scientific breakthrough. It will be because of a Japanese invasion, now ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This Ampex model 750 recorder is a ...