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Small Reels Redux: Why Cassettes are Cool Again

Gordon Sauck of Vancouver's Innovative Audio talks cassette deck tech — and why it still matters
- By Brent Butterworth
- Posted September 17, 2012
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Whenever I’m in the Pacific Northwest, I like to stop by Vancouver’s Innovative Audio and visit my friend Gordon Sauck, one of the true gurus of vintage audio gear.

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News You Just Can’t Use

Are cassette tapes making a comeback?
- By Ken C. Pohlmann
- Posted October 6, 2011
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I always enjoy logging onto The Onion. Its faux news stories are wicked funny. Their specialty is satirical stories that seem vaguely plausible, but of course are completely bogus. Occasionally, people actually believe Onion stories. Recent Onion tweets reported that armed Congressmen were taking schoolchildren hostage and demanding $12 trillion in cash.

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Boxed Set of the Month: Pearl Jam's "Ten"
- By sandv blog
- Posted March 31, 2009
Let's see now . . . two CDs, one DVD, four LPs, a buncha other stuff, and a cassette! What, no 8-track? Despite that, the Collector's Edition of Pearl Jam's 1991 debut, Ten (Epic/Legacy), truly goes to Eleven — and as such, it's without question our Boxed Set of the Month for March.

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Everything Old Is New Again
- By sandv blog
- Posted February 6, 2009
Cassette tapes have been dead and gone for a while now, but if you're missing the boxy look of a cassette, we have the desk accessory you've been longing for. This tape is a tape dispenser. Get it? Tape, from a tape.

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Alas, Cassettes, We Hardly Knew Ye
- By sandv blog
- Posted August 4, 2008
I regret to inform you of the passing of the Compact Cassette.

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