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It wasn’t all DIY, and it wasn’t all Sony. Just as rival brands produced blank cassette tapes and CDs, the likes of TDK, JVC, Sharp and Maxell soon got in on the act. Pre-recorded MiniDisc albums were ...
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An MD that gets my full respectIt wasn’t all DIY, and it wasn’t all Sony. Just as rival brands produced blank cassette tapes and CDs, the likes of TDK, JVC, Sharp and Maxell soon got in on the ...
Object Details maker Radio Corporation of America Description (Brief) This portable cassette recorder was designed by the noted industrial designer John Vassos (1898-1985). Born in Romania to Greek ...
This TEAC model A-170 cassette tape deck includes input equalizing controls more typical of studio equipment. The donor, who used this tape deck as a teenager, added the “do not touch” admonition in ...
The parcel appeared to be a gift. It remained unopened until around 4 p.m. When Mr. Ganesh opened the package, he found what appeared to be a cassette tape recorder.
Sony followed suit with "Beta II", like VHS-LP at half the tape speed, i.e. three hours on a 90-minute cassette. The old recordings and the cassettes remained compatible.
Tunde Adebimpe's debut solo album, Thee Black Boltz, had an unlikely origin: a break-in. After someone stole hard drives full of demos from his garage, Adebimpe began to rummage through his old things ...
The best tech products announced this week include Orange Amps' first-ever turntable and Nothing's striking noise-canceling ...
Long before Spotify and Soundcloud, cassette tape trading was how many discovered new music. With it came a flood of releases from some of the biggest dance promoters of the ‘90s - but in a very ...
The era of rave tapes truly flourished in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, a period often referred to as the ‘ Golden Age of Rave ’. It was a time when dance music was exploding across ...