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, ...

DATING from the late 1990s, the Super Audio Compact Disc, or SACD, is a curious beast. It probably yields the best audio quality you'll hear outside a concert hall and yet it was developed more to ...

The following story ran in the first-ever issue of SPIN in May 1985. Compact discs and compact disc players are the hottest things to hit the audio market since cassette tapes and players. However, ...

CDs are an underrated music format and it’s nearly impossible to find a truly high-quality player at a reasonable price. The Backgroove CdPRO BGCS-41 is your best bet. Whether you’ve held onto an old ...

The compact disc gave us our first taste of digital music – and we liked it. Upon its arrival in the U.S. in March 1983, the sleek 4.7-inch plastic and aluminum disc – about the size of a drink ...

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 ...

One of my very favourite audio devices was the 6th generation iPod nano, a tiny digital music player consisting of a 1.54-inch touchscreen and very little else. That device has long been consigned to ...

Parasound introduced the versatile Zcd Compact Disc Player which provides high-performance CD sound, plus USB, and preamplifier features in a half-width sized rack mountable component. The Zcd has a ...

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 ...

Which multi-disc CD players are best? While they might be less familiar to teens these days, the multi-disc CD player was once one of the most desirable and sought-after pieces of audio equipment for ...

What is a compact disc (CD)? A Compact Disc (CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data. CD-ROMs and CD-Rs remain widely used technologies in the computer industry.CD-ROM drives employ a ...