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 ...

It's time to rearrange your speakers—quadraphonic sound is back. Well, at least in one instance. A new LP documenting a live performance by electronic musician Suzanne Ciani is being released as a ...

As technology and the digital world advance more and more, our analog counterparts inevitably becoming displaced, often creating a sense of nostalgia in many of us. Now, Conserve the Sound has ...

Producer T Bone Burnett has long promised the development of a new analog format that he promised would improve on both vinyl and CDs, as well as digital streaming and any other existing recorded ...

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 ...

At Hollow Earth Radio’s basement digs in north Seattle, station co-founder Amber Kai Morgan keeps a stash of answering machine cassettes in a Mason jar marked “beans.” As self-proclaimed salvagers of ...

Resurging interest in vinyl records has spawned a renaissance in turntable manufacturing. At a time when you can stream almost any song by any artist, music lovers have rediscovered a fondness for the ...

In 2017, something curious happened: Sony started manufacturing vinyl records again after ceasing all production in 1989. The RIAA's (Recording Industry Association of America) 2022 year-end revenue ...

Everybody is streaming over smartphones, smart computers and smart speakers. But a “smart” anything may be doing its best to outsmart your ears. You need a DAC. That is to say, you probably need ...

The world’s first analog machine learning chip has arrived, claims Aspinity, the upstart from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, commercializing an always-on technology that originated from research carried ...

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 ...

When you really need in need of a good night's sleep, there's nothing more irritating than lying awake noticing every little sound, from cars passing by to your neighbor's music to your pet's midnight ...