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Analog Formats

Reel-to-reel
- Reel-to reel  tape recording is the form of magnetic tape audio recording.
- The recording medium is held on a reel rather than being contained in a cassette.


Gramophone record
- The record is an analogue sound, consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove usually starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc.
- Also known as vinyl records.
- Primary medium used for commercial music reproduction for most of the 20th century.
- Replaced the phonograph cylinder and although they were supplanted in popularity in the late 1980s by CDs, leaving mainstream by 1991, they continue to be manufactured and sold as of 2009.
- Still used by DJs and audiophiles for certain types of music.



Compact Cassette
- Magnetic tape sound recording format.
- Originally designed for dictation it was introduced in 1963.
- Compact Cassette  supplanted reel-to-reel tape recording in most non-professional applications due to better fidelity.
- From early 1970s to late 1990s, the cassette was one of the two most common formats for prerecorded music, first alongside the LP and later the Compact Disc
- As it developed more its audio quality Compact Cassettes found a use as well in home multitrack recording projects.


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