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

You can’t doubt the appeal of vintage audio equipment, especially stereo receivers. With their giant metal knobs, faux-wood paneling and glow-up facades, they have a unique cool factor that modern ...

Pure’s Classic Stereo Mini is a small hi-fi system comprised of an integrated amplifier and two compact passive bookshelf speakers. As its name suggests, it’s essentially a scaled-down version of the ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

In the mid-2000s, standardized head units were replaced by integrated receivers. Then came USB and Bluetooth connectivity. And yet, millions of vehicles out there predate these factory audio ...

A few years ago, CNET ran a story posing the question, "How can 30-year-old receivers sound better than new ones?" Ben Carp still hears about this article all the time, and for the most part, he ...

Eight years ago, Mikey Weiss had wanted to build a display of vintage stereos at his Brooklyn store – “a museum piece,” he calls it – to show people what stereos looked like in the 1970s. His ...

The speakers in your iPhone or Mac likely sound weak compared to your stereo system. But how do you get the music from your device to those speakers? AirPlay is Apple’s super-cool technology that ...

This episode explores why vintage audio hi-fi gear has suddenly become so sought after with @audioloveyyc and @budget_audiophiler. The ecoustics team examines the reasons behind the resurgence of ...

I've got a receiver from the 70s that's been working fine until the last few weeks - it's cracking in the right front speaker, with no signal present (and it doesn't seem to be affected by volume). It ...

In Living Stereo caters to audiophile tastes in Greenwich Village, right across the street from where Tower Records once stood. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a ...