In 1985, promoters of digital audio tape recorders were champing at the bit. Their new machines for home use could reproduce music with much greater clarity than the old familiar cassette tape ...

The DAT system houses the tape in small cassettes roughly half the size of a standard analog cassette and is protected from dust and handling by the same kind of hinged door used for video tapes. As ...

Just when you thought it was safe to go into the compact disc waters, here comes yet another new format for recorded music. It`s digital audio tape–DAT for short–and it is being touted as the next ...

The controversial digital audio tape (DAT) recorders, with sound comparable to compact discs, were the stars of the International Winter Consumer Electronics Show. The DAT, prototypes of which were ...

When we consume our music online via streaming services it is easy to forget the days of recordings being contained on physical media, and to overlook the plethora of competing formats that vied for ...

I've recorded live music events on DAT tape for years and recently started thinking about ways to modernize the process and skip the tape altogether. I've been looking for a portable audio recorder to ...

Capturing the aural moment, while leaving the past behind, couldn’t be easier. If you have a storage room full of old cart machines, portable cassette decks for news, and reel-to-reel machines ...