A recent Wall Street Journal feature touted new interest in CDs and portable players among young people. The trend is largely explained as an embrace of less-complicated tech that’s also fueling a ...

At $269, FiiO’s DM15 R2R portable CD player debuts with an in-house DAC, balanced and single-ended headphone outputs, Bluetooth transmit mode, and a high-voltage amp stage which brings real modern ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. How we listen to music and enjoy media in general has changed radically over the past few years with the growing dominance of streaming.

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The convenience of streaming music is unmatched, but in my opinion, it’s missing the intentionality that comes with physical media. My aunt passed her Sony CMT-NE3 CD player down to me as a kid, and ...

The early 2000s were the halcyon days of physical media. While not as svelte as MP3 players became, why are those early 2000s machines smaller than all the new models popping up amidst the retro audio ...

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At $4,000, the Michi Prestige Q430 CD Player targets compact disc fans with ESS DAC and balanced outputs, but was omitting SACD playback a mistake?