On October 1, 1982, Sony ignited a digital audio revolution with the release of the world’s first commercial compact disc player, the CDP-101 (above), in Japan. It signaled the dawn of a new audio ...

Since we last looked into the ongoing resurrection of the classic digital disc, even more CD playing devices have caught our eye. Here’s an update featuring the latest in standalones and separates, ...

Parasound teams with Holm Acoustics to deliver a radically different approach to extracting the best possible sound from a Compact Disc Parasound introduced the Halo CD 1, which uses a new CD playback ...

Streaming music platforms have been in the news quite a bit recently, and not for good reasons. A lot of people who use streaming music services (which includes virtually all of us) are also quite ...

CDs are enjoying a resurgence in popularity and the Marantz CD 60 might be the CD player you’re looking for in 2022. To start, the Marantz CD 60 features an industrial design and sturdy build that not ...

In-car radio was the only real way of listening to music in the car until the late 1960s The in-car vinyl record player never really took off... The first in-car cassette deck landed in 1968; the last ...

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 ...

On October 1, 1982, the first commercial compact disc, Billy Joel’s “52nd Street,” was released in Japan. In the 30 years since, hundreds of billions of CDs have been sold, Joel has stopped recording ...

With its low cost of inclusion into audio systems, compact disc (CD) players are still in tune with consumers despite the rise of digital music and networking technology, according to an analyst. In ...

Back in the 1980s, Peter Giles knew that the fledgling music format, the compact disc, came with some compromises. CDs were smaller than vinyl record albums. That meant the end of the 12-inch album ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Compact Disc’s star has well and truly faded. At its peak, at the turn of the century, just short ...