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Your Old Audio Cassette Collection Is Destroying Itself

Inside a cassette is a long spool of plastic tape covered with a magnetic medium that holds the recording as analog magnetic ...
New York Post

Gen Z buying vintage cassette tapes en masse — but doesn’t know how to play them: ‘I struggled’

The streaming generation is trading Spotify for cassette tapes. But despite Gen Z’s obsession with all things vintage — from flip phones to Y2K fashion reboots like Ed Hardy and Von Dutch — the ...
NPR

The cassette tape is making a comeback thanks to a family-run company in Missouri

Despite the odds, cassette tapes are making a comeback. And one family-owned company in Springfield, Missouri is a leader in the revival. Decades ago, a commercial for high-quality cassette tapes ...
Los Angeles Times

Cassette tapes are making a comeback. But it’s about the culture, not the sound

One can explain the recent boom in vinyl record sales in terms that make sense to an audiophile: A vinyl record often sounds more nuanced than music in a compressed digital format. But the growth in ...
The New York Times

As Cassettes Come Back, the Dilemma Is Finding a Tape Deck

Musicians and fans have developed a new taste for an old format, but manufacturers largely stopped making players. Listeners are finding creative (and vintage) solutions. By Marc Hogan When Taylor ...