Personal Audio

More and more music lovers are buying MP3 players these days. These devices allow you to listen to hundreds (and in certain cases thousands) of your favorite songs and audio clips in a device that...

Lanier makes one of the most popular transcribing machines around. Reliable and efficiently designed, they are easy to use and virtually maintenance free. One of the most popular features is how...

If you have a CD player and would like to connect a cassette player to it, there is a very simple way to do this involving the auxiliary inputs and outputs in the CD and cassette players. Once you...

Sony calls the Xplod a "CD Radio Cassette-Corder." You may know it as a boombox. The Xplod is an aggressively styled device featuring a large 130mm power-drive woofer. The 20-watt device has an...

Portable cassette players have been replaced by iPods for a good reason. A cassette is an inferior way to listen to music in the digital age and cannot compete with what an iPod offers to the...

One of the bad things about advances in audio and video technology is that you have to repurchase your entire library of songs or videos when the next generation of technology appears. If you...

Listening to music from your iPod on a car stereo requires an adapter hook-up to transmit the signal from the personal audio device to the dashboard. There are three basic types of equipment you...

Without the Sony Walkman, which started as a compact-for-its-time personal cassette player unlike anything on the mass market, there perhaps would be no iPod or Zune these days. Throughout the...

You're listening to your favorite tape on your old cassette player, and suddenly it stops working. It might not be necessary to take it to your local electronics repair shop or lament the fact...

Starting in the latter half of the 20th century, people have been able to own devices that allows them to be mobile and listen to audio, particularly music. Since then, the sophistication and...

The MP3 player--and more specifically the iPod--has revolutionized the way that people listen to music on the go. Gone are the days of lugging wallets full of CDs along on a trip or worrying about...

Cassette tapes consist of a thin plastic film (tape) that is coated with thousands of microscopic magnets. When a blank tape is produced, the magnets on the tape are oriented in a random mix of...

The boom box was born when stereo capabilities were added to radio cassette players. The boom box was introduced in the late 1970s. Boom boxes were also called ghetto blasters, jam boxes and radio...

Much has been said about "analog" versus "digital," and the debate about which is the best format for music will surely carry on for years to come. If you have analog type media---such as LP vinyl...

An MP3 is a compressed digital audio file. MP3s can be made from any audio source. MP3s were originally known as MPEG-1 Level 3, because the Motion Pictures Experts Group, or MPEG, defined the...

Have you ever been tired of the bad speaker inside your cellar phone, do you still have a car stereo which supports cassettes only or do you just want to make a back-up copy of the music in your...

The biggest selling point of an iPod is its portability. You can load it up with thousands of songs, videos and photos and take them with you wherever you go. Many users spend a lot of time in...

Although getting your CD collection onto your computer and into your personal music player is fairly easy, it is a little bit more difficult to convert outdated cassette tape technology to MP3....

The workings of a portable cassette start with the cassette tape itself. An audio cassette is the device that stores the musical information. It consists of two spools seated inside a hollow...

Even though cassettes are in danger of being phased out by sleeker and sexier (not to mention more convenient) ways of carrying your music with you, they still remain an icon of the electronics...

Cassette decks are tape recorders used for playing or recording audio cassette tapes. The term deck was once used to distinguish between a stereo component system and a recorder, which featured a...

If you have old Records or audio cassette tapes that you’ve recorded in the past and wanted to capture that old audio and put it in an MP3 format for your IPOD or MP3 player, this article was...

Cassette tapes are all fundamentally the same--they feature two spools of tape with a pattern of magnetically charged particles on it that can be manipulated to reproduce sounds. The four major...

The modern-day audiocassette tape was invented in 1963. The portability, ease of playback and ability to instantaneously record audio was a giant leap forward for the home-recording and commercial...

When 70-year-old Masaru Ibuka, co-founder of Japan's world-renowned Sony Corp. requested that his engineers design and create a portable stereo cassette player for a long business trip, little did...

Walking down the street to the beat of your iPod is great, but using your iPod in the car is even better. Unrestricted by the number of CDs you can throw in the back seat, you’ll have all...

No doubt that the most popular brand of portable media players in the market is the iPod. It isn’t just your typical MP3 player, some models have the capability of letting you view pictures and...

The iPod Shuffle is built for you to clip onto your jacket, purse or pocket and carry with you wherever you go. Its portability doesn't end there; you can also play your Shuffle through stereo...

In this free video clip series, watch an expert demonstrate how to clean home electronics and accessories. Care and upkeep for DVD players, computer keyboards and filters, DV cameras and much...

The Sony WMFS220 Sports Walkman is perfect for outdoor use, especially for running, jogging and working out. You can play AM and FM radio stations as well as audio cassettes, and all you have to...

The Panasonic RQ-SW48VK Sports Radio is ready to go straight out of the box—all you have to do is install one AA battery (not included), and attach the headphones. Installing the single AA battery...

The Panasonic RQ-SW48VK Sports Radio is lightweight and durable—perfect for any use. Playing an audio tape on the Panasonic RQ-SW48VK Sports Radio is very easy if you just follow the simple steps...

The Sony WMFS420 Sports Radio is a digital tuning AM/FM stereo cassette player with accurate, drift-free reception. The Sony WMFS420 Sports Radio is ready to go out of the box, all you have to do...

As popular as audio CDs are, there are still many people who have music collections on audio cassette tapes, or who use the tapes to record music they like. The Sony CFD-ZW755 Boombox includes a...

The Sony CFD-ZW755 Boombox includes an audio cassette recorder that lets you record your own audio tapes from the radio, the CD player or from another tape. One way to build your music collection...

Your Sony CFD-ZW755 Boombox is capable of recording to audio tapes directly from a CD.

The Panasonic RX-D29 is portable boombox and serves well as a home stereo. Audio cassette tapes can be recorded and played with just a few simple steps. Read on to learn how to listen to an audio...

The Panasonic RX-D29 is portable boombox and makes an excellent home stereo. Not only can you listen to CDs, radio channels and audio cassettes, you can record radio broadcasts onto an audio...

The Panasonic RX-D29 is portable boombox as well as an excellent home stereo. Not only can you listen to CDs, radio channels and audio cassettes, you can record an audio CD to audio cassette. Read...

The Sony CFD-F10 Boombox is perfect for music lovers. Since you can play an audio tape on the Sony CFD-F10 Boombox, you can listen to all of your cherished music. Read on to learn how to play an...

You can't play your CDs everywhere. For instance, older cars feature cassette players. If you have a Sony CFD-F10 Boombox, there's no need to buy duplicate copies of your CDs in audio tape...

The Sony CFD-ZW755 Boombox has many great features. You can play several forms of audio media and add some cool sound effects to your music too. If you like falling asleep to music, you can...

The JVC RV-NB1 Kaboom Series Boombox has many great features. You can play MP3 discs in addition to other forms of audio media, use your boombox as an amplifier, record guitar and microphone...

The JVC RV-NB1 Kaboom Series Boombox has many great features. You can play MP3 discs in addition to other forms of audio media, use your boombox as an amplifier, record guitar and microphone...

The JVC RV-NB1 Kaboom Series Boombox has many great features. You can play MP3 discs in addition to other forms of audio media, use the boombox as an amplifier, record guitar and microphone...

The rugged Sony WMFS593 Sports Walkman is designed with rubber gaskets and water-resistant seals to keep out water and dirt, so you can listen to music during your outdoor fun. However, before you...

The Sony WMFS593 Sports Walkman features an Anti-Rolling Mechanism which maintains stable tape speed to maximize sound quality while unit is in motion when you're active. Here's how to play a...

The Sony WMFS220 Sports Walkman lets you listen to the radio or a cassette tape, for hours of hands-free music on the go. Here's how to play a cassette tape on this model.

With an adapter, you can play your MP3 through your car stereo cassette deck, and take your entire music collection with you while traveling. Here's how.

You can listen to audio cassettes on your Panasonic RX-D29 boombox. Audio cassettes with high metal position, though, may not play well. Here is how you can listen to an audio cassette with your...