Every sound you hear in real life is analog, but digital recording converts the original sound into a sequence of numbers. No wonder analog and digital sound so different! Ex-movie theater ...

Digital technology can’t replicate the sound of gear from the 1950s and ’60s, Sean Wolcott and Craig Curran say. For the past 30 years, Everett musician Sean Wolcott has collected artifacts from a ...

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 ...

Most analog-to-digital audio ripping devices hardly warrant mention these days. But the PlusDeck Ex’s ability to record MP3s to analog cassette is so odd, I can’t help but be amused. If you’re longing ...

Some say nothing sounds like a vinyl. There's enough interest in that theory to support a wide market of modern record ...

Why do producers keep choosing analog drum synths over digital alternatives, even when technology has advanced so dramatically? The answer lies in subtle circuit behaviors that create warmth and punch ...

The Mixx Analog Plus successfully brings vinyl and CD playback into the modern age with excellent features, strong sound and ...

Digital recording and playback techniques were introduced to consumer electronics in 1981. Since then an ongoing debate has questioned the capacity of digital systems to reproduce the nuances and ...

Long before the recent vinyl renaissance, audiophiles have long espoused the analog benefits of vinyl records as being vastly superior to digital. The argument often includes claims of vinyl sounding ...