For a supposedly obsolete music format, audio cassette sales seem to be set on fast forward at the moment. Cassettes are fragile, inconvenient, and relatively low-quality in terms of sound quality — ...

Auckland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. Auckland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. For a supposedly obsolete ...

“Without him, I have no reason to sing,” said M.S. Subbulakshmi to her secretary Atmanathan, on her decision to not perform after the passing of her husband T. Sadasivam. This is an excerpt from the ...

It's easy to roll your eyes at the cassette trend. Just as easy as it was to roll your eyes at vinyl 15 years ago—easier, probably—but there's no use fighting it. Nostalgia comes for all of us in some ...

When Taylor Swift’s releases her new album, “Life of a Showgirl,” in October, it can be heard on the usual places, including streaming, vinyl and…cassette tape? The cassette tape was once one of the ...

Cassettes were my gateway into hi-fi. In my early years, this was my format of choice. Cheap, portable and robust, cassettes were way more accessible to eight-year-old me than vinyl records. I write ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - In downtown Springfield sits a giant building with a giant company inside. “I didn’t think this was what I was going to do for a living,” National Audio Company president ...

Maxell is a heritage Japanese audio and electronics manufacturer with a history dating back to the 1960s. Over the years, the brand has become synonymous with audio cassettes and other recordable ...

In the ‘80s, Maxell was a brand synonymous with audio and cassette tapes thanks to an iconic ad. With the popularity of cassette tapes on the rise, Maxell is once again making cassette players but ...

Over the course of more than a decade, physical media has gradually vanished from public view. Once computers had an optical drive except for ultrabooks, but these days computer cases that even ...

Sales of cassette tapes have jumped from 3,283 in 2012 to more than 195,000 in 2022, with the likes of Arctic Monkeys and Harry Styles all releasing their music on the medium. The British Phonographic ...

Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player and, with a hefty clack, the machine whirrs to life. As the Kashmiri tailor stitches, the machine crackles for a moment before ...