The compact disc isn’t dead, young listeners are rediscovering the format and driving demand at local record stores.

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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 ...

It’s a little-known fact that a Battelle scientist’s love of classical music led to the development of the compact disc. In the mid-1960s, Jim Russell began looking for a way to improve the quality of ...

Forty years ago today, a magnificent revolution swept across the music industry, making albums more accessible and enhanced audio playback. The Compact Disc became popular in the late 1980s and ...

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 ...

Which type of hi-fi component is better for your CDs and system?

Thirty-five years after the format was introduced as one of the greatest audio advancements since the birth of recorded music — and unwittingly unleashed digitized music into the wild — the once ...

CD sales saw a modest increase in 2023, with 36.83 million units sold, briefly reversing years of decline. Gen Z is now buying more CDs than older generations, driving renewed interest in physical ...

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 ...

The introduction of the compact disc, or CD, was the beginning of a ‘digital revolution’ which now dominates electronic media. Introduced in 1982, the CD was slow to catch on. The sound was crisp and ...

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