The Audio Archive

Specialties

The Audio Archive digitizes your LPs, 78s, reel-​to-​reel tapes, cassettes, 16-​inch discs, transcription discs (Audiodisc, Presto, Recordio, Soundcraft and many others), and dictation discs (Edison Voicewriter, Gray Audograph, Soundscriber).

Our customers are primarily record labels and archives who need to preserve their collections or re-​issue commercial recordings, and require the very best quality. Clients from all over the globe choose to work with The Audio Archive because the quality of our sound is second to none. All of our processes conform to archival best practices, from media handling, conservation and processing, to metadata.

We also work with consumers, digitizing your personal music collections, or preserving your family legacies as oral histories.

Visits to our preservation lab and studio are by appointment only.

History

Established in 2004.

The Audio Archive was born out of our passion for history and music. With a strong background in engineering and physics, we develop better ways to digitize the audio from analog recordings to preserve them for the future. We’ve taken a cost-​no-​object approach to preservation, which sets us apart from all other services. This means we have obtained long obsolete equipment, and recreated them with modern technology so that recordings sound as good as possible. We’ve hunted down or custom manufactured the best possible playback technology. When you send your LP to us, it is played through a $ 50,000 LP playback system. A reel-​to-​reel tape is played on a fully restored Studer A820 Master Recorder — the same machine used to master LPs. Our services are on a par with the Library of Congress or Sony Music.

For the ultimate in sound quality when digitizing your analog recordings, choose The Audio Archive.