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] ...

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 ...

2:34 Edmonton record lovers and owners react to vinyl outselling CDs When Luminate, the company that monitors music sales and streaming consumption, released its weekly numbers last week, I sighed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It may not have caused the widespread panic that Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” radio spoof sparked in 1938, but an April Fool’s hoax concocted by radio station WXRT apparently touched a nerve ...

When a writer publishes a book, the publisher commonly offers the book in several different formats. For example, audio technology now allows publishers to release books in both electronic and audio ...

On October 1, 1982, the first commercial compact disc, Billy Joel’s “52nd Street,” was released in Japan. In the 30 years since, hundreds of billions of CDs have been sold, Joel has stopped recording ...