At $4,000, the Michi Prestige Q430 CD Player targets compact disc fans with ESS DAC and balanced outputs, but was omitting SACD playback a mistake? Rotel’s luxury Michi brand has expanded its digital ...

On 8th March 1979, Philips revealed the very first Compact Disc (CD) and CD player prototype to the press at Eindhoven, Netherlands. The CD player prototype had an LED display and four buttons, and a ...

When you think of iconic electronics, there are certain '80s gadgets you can't help but love. The Sony Walkman, Nintendo Entertainment System, and various VCRs and boomboxes defined everyday life in ...

I suppose the upturn in the fortunes of the Compact Disc was inevitable. Much like the resurgence of vinyl as a popular audio storage format, the revival of CD as a viable audio storage format is ...

Disc of Joy: Twenty years ago, a large coalition of technology manufacturers backed a potentially revolutionary optical disc format. Like VHS and Betamax before it, the technology had to fight through ...

Demand for CD players rises 74% this year amid deluxe releases from artists such as Taylor Swift and Pink Floyd Forget the vinyl revival. CD players and compact discs are back on Christmas lists this ...

CDs are having a vinyl moment and we’re seeing a growing number of attractive and highly functional CD players to put the compact in compact disc. The latest player to tempt us to return to the 1990s’ ...

For a supposedly obsolete music format, audio cassette sales seem to be set on fast forward at the moment. Cassettes are fragile, inconvenient and relatively low-quality in the sound they produce – ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Kylie Minogue’s best records - by which we mean the pop/disco ones, of course - tend to be ...

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In September of 1992, I bought my first two CDs. One was Check Your Head by the Beastie Boys, and the other was the Singles soundtrack. I was 14 years old. Yesterday, I bought six more CDs — mostly ...