We Are Rewind blends 21st-century technology with the analogue soul of classic cassettes. Romain Boudruche explains how he ...

Our Audio expert Chris Haslam gives his personal recommendation for buying a modern portable cassette or CD player ...

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 ...

Cassettes are portable and compact, unlike vinyls, but finding a way to play them nowadays is proving difficult. The streaming generation is trading Spotify for cassette tapes. But despite Gen Z’s ...

Everyone knows that vinyl LPs have experienced a resurgence in recent years, but it seems that the humble analog cassette tape may also be due for a comeback. With that in mind, a French entrepreneur ...

Spencer Richardson, who's bringing rehabbed music technology back into circulation, is finding that millennials are ...

A British maker has built Pi-powered tapes that re-create our physical connection to music for the Digital Age. Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering the big screen, small screen ...

I’ve had my Sony CD player since I was a kid — streaming is convenient, but this is why I still prefer music through physical media after all these years.

Vinyl records have been hot for years, and sales have grown to the point that this year they are poised to overtake CDs as the most popular way to buy a physical copy of music. The latest retro music ...

The above contraption may look like the kind of cassette player bygone teens used to use to create mix tapes, but it's not -- it's a Raspberry Pi-powered Spotify speaker with NFC-based playlists. Its ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

This month marks the 40th anniversary of Sony’s first Walkman, the portable music player that would forever change the way we consume music. And while the audio cassette long ago fell out of favor for ...