If you are a connoisseur of analogue audio, it’s probable you might ... format that fit four stereo tracks onto a single quarter-inch tape loop as eight parallel tracks, four each of left ...

In our no-nonsense journey through the world of audio technology we’ve so far have looked at digital audio and the vinyl disk recording. What’s missing? Magnetic tape, the once-ubiquitous ...

It contained quarter-inch tape running at double the speed of regular ... scuffed—or crudely-made—frame wouldn’t affect the audio signal. To put it in technical terms, the cassette had ...