Hey all, I frequently run into older format items, such as 33s and 8 track tapes. My question is who made/makes the best 8 track tape players? I like to restore/preserve old (mainly classical, and ...

For nearly four decades, Bob Hiemenz has been the pied piper of eight-track tapes. They've followed him wherever he goes. As he'd move from town to town, people — friends, neighbors, even strangers — ...

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

Vinyl is experiencing a huge resurgence — we all know this. But a rising tide lifts all ships and it has actually spawned renewed interest in other old-school audio formats as well, including CDs and, ...

This month, Capt. Joseph A. Grace Jr., USN (Ret.) likens the state of government technology to that of an 8-track tape player in an iPod world, thanks to a bloated procurement process: In the early ...

Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a distant galaxy…a Ford Galaxy, that is, I listened to music on an 8-track tape player. Back then we mounted them under the dashboard. That makes me old enough to ...

Cassette tapes existed before cars adopted them, but automakers stuck with 8-tracks until one key improvement made cassette ...

Imagine a car company unveiling a product as revolutionary as the original iPod, and you'll have a sense of what Ford did on this date in 1965. For the previous decade, audio engineers had been ...