Sometimes, you don’t know there’s wide disagreement or a debate over something until, suddenly, there is. Such is the case with reader opinions on music encoded digitally or on vinyl. On Tuesday, The ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Last month, we said that in spite of recent technological developments, videotape is not yet dead ...

John Mellancamp’s recent album “No Better Than This” was recorded by the singer and “O Brother, Where Art Thou” music producer T-Bone Burnett using a single vintage RCA 77DX microphone and a ...

Vinyl's surging popularity is covered ad nauseam in mainstream media; the Audiophiliac ponders the rise of the other major consumer analog audio format, the cassette. Ex-movie theater projectionist ...

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 ...

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 ...

Consumers will soon have three DVD-Video recording formats to compare, but there’s not a single DVD-Audio recording format for audiophiles to audition. Because the DVD-Audio format is still in its ...

The argument for analog being better than digital goes something like this. Digital utilizes sampling so no matter how many times a second a sample is taken, there are always those spaces between ...

Primed goes in-depth on the technobabble you hear on Engadget every day -- we dig deep into each topic's history and how it benefits our lives. You can follow the series here. Looking to suggest a ...