A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine mentioned that he had an old Onkyo cassette deck that he was about to throw out. I convinced him to at least let me look at it before it hit the dumpster. It turns ...

Distorted guitars were a big part of the rock revolution last century; we try to forget about the roll. As a youth, [David Hilowitz] couldn’t afford a loud aggressive amp, a distortion pedal, or even ...

I'm trying to repair and old Sankyo STD-1800 cassette tape player/recorder and so far I've fixed a broken play/record selector switch and a "grain of wheat" light bulb.<BR><BR>However, I have one dead ...

Now considered an authority in his niche, Wilsman enjoys a brisk business refurbishing old tape decks. He averages 15 a month and a one-month turnaround. He doesn't do spot repairs because he figures ...

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 ...

Poland's Artur Mlynarz collects, repairs and restores classic hi-fi equipment. Sometimes though, units come in that are beyond help. Wanting to bring new life to vintage cassette decks, he mounted a ...

With the transition to digital equipment well into its seconddecade, radio stations probably have some old and obsolete analog geargathering dust on a shelf somewhere. It can be difficult to get rid ...

Last year, the Walkman turned 40 and cassette sales were the highest for 15 years. How did Sony mark the occasion? With an admittedly rather good Android-flavoured music player, announced in September ...

All those mix tapes your friends made you, all the wistful nostalgia of Iron Maiden and proto-emo early Smiths can be at your fingertips again with the magic of tape-to-MP3 technology. And today, we ...