Vinyl is booming, streaming services are more popular than ever, and we’re all depressed. This means one thing and one thing only: it’s time to reassess CDs. Yes, friends, you read that correctly. The ...

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 ...

In September of 1992, I bought my first two CDs. One was Check Your Head by the Beastie Boys, and the other was the Singles soundtrack. I was 14 years old. Yesterday, I bought six more CDs — mostly ...

This year something magical happened: I got back into CDs. With a vengeance. And that’s all because of a very specific CD player: the Marantz CD6007. “Okay Callum, that sounds interesting and all, but ...

Perhaps not everyone will agree with us, but here at Gizmodo, we’ve officially declared Blu-Ray the winner over HD DVD in the battle to be DVD’s replacement format. It’s technically superior to HD DVD ...

The excellent sounding Cambridge Audio Evo CD Transport fulfils its primary role with a slight catch. Combined with the Evo 150, it makes the Uniti Atom feel dated. It would appear that CD players are ...

Spotify is finally going the lossless way, with the streaming audio giant announcing that it will soon offer the option of CD-quality audio streams. Spotify HiFi will arrive later this year in “select ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co. music label Hollywood Records is offering a new CD format with extra features to encourage compact-disc purchases in a bid to reverse declining CD sales. Sign up ...

Pro-Ject’s CD Box RS2 Tube doubles down on Red Book CDs with a balanced tube stage—no SACD, no digital inputs, and a $2,300 price tag. At over $2,000 USD, the CD Box RS2 Tube is a serious financial ...

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the reason CD sales suck is not the fact that there isn’t enough crap loaded onto the disc. Enhanced CDs have been around for over a decade; hell, many of ...

iTunes isn't the most accurate or most powerful CD ripper, but it's the best for most people with demanding digitizing needs.