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 ...

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 ...

In these days of iPods, desktop stereos seem so 20th Century. Still, when I heard about RCA’s new contraption, I was intrigued. Like VCR/DVD combos and camera-docking printers, it’s an innovation ...

FiiO equips the Snowsky Disc with dual headphone outputs, including a 3.5mm single-ended jack and a 4.4mm balanced output.

Despite the meteoric rise of digital music streaming, many older listeners may still have CD collections taking up living space. Yamaha has released a new player that can hold five discs at once, and ...

A CD-ROM drive can be used as a stand-alone unit for playing digital audio CDs without interfacing with a computer. The stereo output of CD player available at the audio jack can be amplified using ...