For audiophiles, nothing gets beyond their love for music and the audio gear they own. The exploration for the best headphone, IEM, or DAC never ends, given there is so much to discover and the ...

Sony launched the world’s first CD player on this day in 1982, kickstarting the compact disc digital audio era. The Sony CDP-101 was released to consumers in Japan, priced at JPY 168,000. That ...

If you still own CDs, finding a convenient way to play them has become surprisingly difficult. Most laptops no longer include disc drives, smartphones have replaced physical music with streaming, and ...

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Physical media has come back to popularity, mostly due to the outrageous pricing streaming services charge. Fosi Audio today announced the launch of the Merak CD Player, a compact, all-in-one digital ...

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 ...

Streaming solved the problem of having thousands of albums within reach, but it created another one for anyone with a substantial CD collection. Those discs may still contain music you own and want to ...

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