If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Why do CDs get such a bad rap? After all, it wasn’t that ...

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 ...

Teac Japan announced the LP-R550 today [JP], a kind of Swiss Army knife for audio freaks. Buyers get a turntable, a cassette player/recorder, a CD player/recorder and a PLL synthesized AM/FM stereo ...

The+Record Player may have a small footprint, but this all-in-one unit delivers spectacular audio that can compete with the sounds from far pricier component systems. Plus Audio (a.k.a. +Audio) ...

The $1,000 Pro-Ject CD Box DS2 CD player is very versatile; CD player, transport, and DAC. But does it make sense in 2022? Indeed it does. The CD is dead. Long live the CD. How many times have we ...

THIS year marks the 50th birthday of the humble audio cassette tape - the medium that revolutionised the way people listened to music. Invented by Philips, the compact audio cassette became a ...

Which home audio CD player is best? In today’s fast-moving streaming-first world, it can be hard to comprehend still using physical music media. What many people don’t realize is that you pay in audio ...

As someone who thinks about shopping and gifting for a living, it can be admittedly difficult to buy gifts for me. However, when my mom bought me the Audio-Technica Stereo Turntable vinyl player as a ...

The ultimate dorm room hi-fi system? The +Audio +Record Player Special Edition White delivers quite the punch and wireless connectivity. Being able to listen to vinyl and stream from Spotify, TIDAL, ...

Although it wasn't initially intended for the general public, the first commercial audio CD recorder made its debut in 1991 at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Convention in Las Vegas ...