Olympus invented the microcassette recorder in 1969, but these devices still help people capture audio information. Some microcassette recorders even have voice activation features that trigger ...

Just when you thought it was safe to go into the compact disc waters, here comes yet another new format for recorded music. It`s digital audio tape–DAT for short–and it is being touted as the next ...

I've recorded live music events on DAT tape for years and recently started thinking about ways to modernize the process and skip the tape altogether. I've been looking for a portable audio recorder to ...

The kooky geniuses at Teenage Engineering are back with a new gadget that is guaranteed to make you salivate until its price tag smacks you back to reality. The maker of drool-worthy synthesizers just ...

A few weeks ago we discussed tricking your video cassette recorder into thinking that it`s an audio deck. Well, here`s one more rabbit out of that hat. Recent statistics indicate that about as many ...

Philips NV, the Dutch electronics company that created the cassette tape, announced yesterday that it is developing a digital tape recorder that also will be able to play conventional analog cassette ...

The DAT system houses the tape in small cassettes roughly half the size of a standard analog cassette and is protected from dust and handling by the same kind of hinged door used for video tapes. As ...

In our no-nonsense journey through the world of audio technology we’ve so far have looked at digital audio and the vinyl disk recording. What’s missing? Magnetic tape, the once-ubiquitous recording ...