From the early Philips prototype to the eleven inaugural CD players we reviewed in 1983 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Judging by the way the major record labels have been acting lately, you'd think the compact disc was the biggest mistake they ever made. Never mind that the CD format has been outselling ...

CDs are having a vinyl moment and we’re seeing a growing number of attractive and highly functional CD players to put the compact in compact disc. The latest player to tempt us to return to the 1990s’ ...

Marantz today introduced the audiophile-grade SA8005 super-audio compact-disc (SACD) player, which features faster, low-noise and lower impedance symmetrical circuits with high-quality components, ...

The Compact Disc (CD) or Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA) – as the official but little-used name – was launched on August 17, 1982: from then on, up to 74 minutes of music could be stored on a sound ...

When conversations at cocktail parties stall, talk often gets kick-started by harmless subjects like automobiles or local restaurants. Musically aware folks, especially younger ones, might confess ...

It’s 30 years since Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms began the CD boom. How did the revolution in music formats come about and what killed it? Thirty years ago this month, Dire Straits released their ...

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 ...