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] ...

Just as compact discs began replacing audiocassette tapes some 20 years ago, Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD) or Digital Video Disc-Audio (DVD-A) or both of the relatively new formats should commence ...

On October 1, 1982, Sony ignited a digital audio revolution with the release of the world’s first commercial compact disc player, the CDP-101 (above), in Japan. It signaled the dawn of a new audio ...

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, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It has now been more than 25 years since the compact disc was introduced to the world. We might ...

Japanese blog Macotakara claims that Apple is planning better-than-CD quality audio for iTunes at some point in 2016. According to several insiders familiar with Apple, whose products are exhibited at ...

When ABKCO Records reissues its newly remastered 22-title Rolling Stones catalog on Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD) on Aug. 27, the way people experience the band’s music may radically change (this ...

After more than a decade of work, building on an idea first posited in 1931 for a device known as the “optophone,” Sony of Japan and Philips of The Netherlands, finally arrived at a new music storage ...