Compact discs are making a strong comeback, particularly among Gen Z and millennials seeking tangible music collections and offline listening. CD sales rose 45.7% to 17.5 million units in the first ...

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 been 43 years since the first Comact Discs were pressed in 1982, ushering in an age of vastly superior fidelity ruined by slapdash remastering. The first official pressing on the new optical ...

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 ...

The man says time is a flat circle, but CDs literally are. So, unsurprisingly, they’re back. Even though cars no longer come with compact disc players and Discmans are harder to find than cans of ...

In 1982, when the BBC's prime-time technology show – Tomorrow's World – did a segment on a new musical format called the "Compact Disc" the presenter skeptically asked "Whether there's a market for ...

Mini optical discs are superior to full-sized discs, and I’m tired of pretending otherwise.

Is this a recent development, or are you a die-hard compact disc fan? What do you like about the format?

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 ...

Yamaha prepares for a new dawn of the Compact Disc, with a CD multi-changer named the CD-C603 The CD-C603 can play MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV or FLAC files stored on a USB thumbdrive, as well as music on ...

FiiO’s $170 DP11 adds AES, a CS43198 DAC, CD ripping and USB conversion because apparently nobody told the compact disc it ...

It’s not something you think about most days. In fact, it’s almost taken for granted: The compact disc’s days as a viable medium for music are nearly over. Oh, I’m not telling you anything you don’t ...