Simply sign up to the Private equity myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Private equity group Clayton Dubilier & Rice is preparing to put industrials company Indicor up for sale aiming ...

It’s a good time to be a CD fan, as the tail end of 2025 has seen an influx of CD players hitting the market. There have been several modern Discmans, such as the Fiio DM15 R2R ($270) or Shanling EC ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Pro-Ject Audio has unveiled its new CD Box RS2 Tube, the ...

If you used or owned a laptop in the 2000s, you'd probably remember that it sported either a DVD or Blu-Ray drive for popping in installation discs, movies, and even the occasional album from your ...

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Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create backups—especially with modern laptops, which are usually supplied without a drive.

In this increasingly digital era, physical media has become a thing of the past in most circles. There is, however, sustained interest in such supposedly antiquated tech. Some examples of this include ...

A friend of mine named Mark recently bought a new car, and there was one feature he was lamenting about not being a thing anymore: a CD player. The year is 2025, and turns out he was wrong. Over the ...

The Eversolo Play is a compact all-in-one music streamer with amplifier. All it needs is a pair of speakers. Audio streaming brand Eversolo recently announced its first all-in-one music streaming ...

You might think that CD players and DVD players have had their run, but as it turns out, they are absolute goldmines for DIY projects. Pop one open and you'll find stepper motors, laser assemblies, ...

Onkyo has unveiled a new member of its Icon audio components series – the Icon C-30. In typical Onkyo fashion, the focus is on sound quality rather than a huge feature list, although it also looks the ...

What do you get when you combine an ESP32, a 16-bit DAC, an antique VFD, and an IDE CD-ROM drive? Not much, unless you put in the work, which [Akasaka Ryuunosuke] did to create ESPer-CDP, a modern ...