


The Elcaset
The Elcaset was a short-lived consumer audio format created by Sony, Panasonic, and Teac and debuted in 1976. It was based on the RCA tape cartridge, which had been produced 20 years before. In 1976, it was thought that the compact cassette would never be able to...
Half Inch 8-track reel-to-reel transfers to WAV files.
Half Inch 8-track reel-to-reel transfers to WAV files. Creative Audio Works offers an audio tape transfer service that enables the transfer of ½” analog eight-track reel-to-reel tape to high-resolution digital audio files, with or without DBX noise reduction. You will...
Mullard – The Blackburn Vacuum Tubes Factory
This great documentary about the manufacturing of thermionic valves was made by Mullard at the Blackburn factory in Great Britain. The plant was closed in the early ’80s due to the decrease in demand for this kind of device. The story begins in 1919 with the collapse...
There was a time when the only portable music for your car was an AM radio.
Just because you’re driving in your car, it doesn’t mean that you can’t take your hi-fi music with you. Here’s a Chrysler innovation: a phonograph for your car. In 1956 Chrysler teamed with CBS to create the “Highway Hi-Fi” an...
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