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 ...

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, ...

The 3 best CD Players for your retro revival –and simply great-sounding music ...

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 ...

It has been 41 years since the very first Compact Disc (CD) was produced in the world, paving the way for the future of commercialized music. In Germany, a factory run by Royal Philips Electronics ...

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 ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Right around the turn of the millennium, compact discs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dire Straits in 1985 - Deborah Feingold/Getty Forty years ago this week, the British rock band Dire Straits released their fifth ...

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 ...

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 rare case we listen to an audio CD these days, we typically rely on off-the-shelf hardware to decode the 1s and 0s into the dulcet tones of Weird Al Yankovic for our listening pleasure. [Lukas] ...