Whether you’re a collector, an audiophile, or simply an admirer of vintage technology, the Pioneer RT-707 stands as a remarkable piece of history, proving that great design and engineering never go ...

WASHINGTON, April 8, 2020 — Crooner Bing Crosby knew a thing or two about sound. In 1947, recognizing that recorded music sounded better on magnetic reel-to-reel tape than on vinyl records, he ...

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The Analog Audio Design TP-1000 Reel-to-Reel Deck will hit your wallet hard at $20,000 and is playback only. With that in mind, Analog Audio Design, has been getting a lot of attention for its $20,000 ...

Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars is ...

At heart, 3D printers are just machines that can melt plastic “wire” into interesting shapes. It’s well-known and oft-lamented that plastic of various sorts has been used to make all manner of ...

For a middle-school music-appreciation class in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the late nineteen-seventies, our teacher asked each of us to bring in a piece of recorded music to play on the ...

Much of America’s musical heritage is stored on artists’ studio tapes. But as they age, many of those reels are slowly deteriorating … … putting work by 20th ...