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 ...

When it penetrates the retail market next year, the heralded digital audio tape (DAT) player will take a position next to the cassette deck and the compact disc player ...

In case you’re wondering, stereo VHS audio on long play was absolutely the worst format—worse even than 8-track cartridges.The track width (around 1mm), the glacial tape speed, and the physical ...

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 ...

The tape speed for the DAT format is only 8.15 mm/sec because the tape head itself rotates at 2000 rpm in order to achieve its high bandwidth. When this format is referred to as RDAT, the R stands for ...

Philips N.V., a large Dutch electronics company, created a stir in October when it announced that it was developing a digital tape recorder that also will be able to play conventional analog casset… ...

Converting audio tapes to digital files. Mac 911 ... The audio quality of a cassette tape is far worse than that of a CD, but you don’t need pristine quality for an audiobook.