Teac is a Japanese hi-fi great with a history dating back to the mid-1950s. It’s best known for its high-end audio equipment, including reel-to-reel machines, cassette tape decks and amplifiers. Now, ...

In March, Rob Frith discovered that a reel-to-reel tape he owned that was labelled “Beatles demo” was just that: a high-quality copy of the Beatles’ legendary unreleased demonstration recording for ...

In March, Rob Frith discovered that a reel-to-reel tape he owned that was labelled ‘Beatles demo’ was just that: a high-quality copy of the Beatles’ legendary unreleased demonstration recording for ...

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My dad grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, so I visited the city many times as a kid, but my family never stayed anywhere like The Central Station Hotel. Built in a century-old train station, this hotel ...

The end of May, 1968: the Beatles meet up at Kinfauns, George Harrison’s bungalow in Esher. Just back from India, gearing up to go hit Abbey Road and start their next album, the lads bang out some ...

The nearly 2,200-square-foot lakefront suite is the brainchild of hotel founder and avid audiophile Luis Contreras. He fell in love with a vintage Revox B77 reel-to-reel tape deck during a dinner in ...

He is played by Stephen Rea, who has arrived from Dublin in a Landmark production of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, written in 1958 and directed by Vicky Featherstone. Rea is now almost a decade ...

The recording appears to be from the band’s 1962 audition for Decca Records, which notably rejected the group. By Neil Vigdor The tape sat unremarkably on a shelf behind the counter, collecting dust ...

A Vancouver record store owner came to the shocking realization that he had The Beatles' audition tape for Decca Records. Michael Ochs Archives Let it be? Yes, it was. A rare piece of Beatles ...

In September 1961, a 20-year-old folk singer named Bob Dylan had no apartment and no record deal. He was, more or less, a complete unknown. One fateful gig at the Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village ...