Digital technology's quickness and convenience ought to have buried its analogue counterparts. Yet vinyl records and film photography endure. Why do people continue to use it?

As academics who rarely go a day without playing or making music, we have spent the past decade examining the extraordinary revival of analogue technology. From vinyl records to film cameras, all ...

Those willing to search for it were rewarded with some of the most powerful, groundbreaking, weird and downright fun pieces ...

Do analogue synths really sound better? What makes this theoretically outdated tech remain so popular in the supposedly forward-thinking realm of electronic music making? There are certain things that ...

We started to hear about professional digital recording in the mid 1970s, but for nearly 100 years, analog was the only audio technology for music, film, TV and radio.

Analog vs. digital music: What's better, and who cares? The Audiophiliac says forget the tech and enjoy music wherever you can.

T Bone Burnett has developed a new medium for recorded sound, a disc format he’s dubbed Ionic Originals. He’s tried out the technology with Bob Dylan re-recording some of his classic songs ...

This week, music producer T Bone Burnett (Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Counting Crows, O Brother, Where Are Thou?) announced a new analog disc medium for music he's developed called "Ionic ...

Beginning next year, Pono will release a line of portable players, a music-download service and digital-to-analog conversion technology intended to present songs as they first sound during studio ...