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 ...

This version of the famous song features a full band, and is the only copy that will ever be manufactured or released. Bob Dylan recording with an acoustic Gibson guitar and a harmonica in 1961 at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

For someone like me—an avid record collector with profound hearing loss—the past decade has produced severe cognitive dissonance caused by two contrary developments. First, vinyl came back; then, good ...

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 ...

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

The Audio-Technica Sound Burger is a delightfully moreish morsel of retro-styled, portable record-playing magnificence ...