CD players are seeing a major resurgence in popularity with a 58.6 percent rise in sales. Discover how modern features are ...

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 ...

Sony launched the world’s first CD player on this day in 1982, kickstarting the compact disc digital audio era.

It's been 43 years since the first Comact Discs were pressed in 1982, ushering in an age of vastly superior fidelity ruined by slapdash remastering. The first official pressing on the new optical ...

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 ...

At the time, much was made of CD's resistance to wear and tear! In a 1981 episode of Tomorrow's World, presenter Kieran Prendiville dragged a stone across one poor disc's surface to demonstrate it's ...

In 1982, when the BBC's prime-time technology show – Tomorrow's World – did a segment on a new musical format called the "Compact Disc" the presenter skeptically asked "Whether there's a market for ...

FiiO’s $170 DP11 adds AES, a CS43198 DAC, CD ripping and USB conversion because apparently nobody told the compact disc it was dead. CD players are back. Back again. Tell a friend — preferably the one ...

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 the first six months of 2026, U.S. compact‑disc (CD) sales leapt 58.6% in wholesale revenue, reaching $171.1 million, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). That surge ...

Through the looking glass: The compact disc's 43-year journey, from technical experiment to a worldwide standard, tells the story of how global collaboration and bold engineering can reshape entire ...

Yamaha prepares for a new dawn of the Compact Disc, with a CD multi-changer named the CD-C603 The CD-C603 can play MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV or FLAC files stored on a USB thumbdrive, as well as music on ...