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 ...

When it comes to music consumption, streaming continues to be the music industry's biggest earner. Sales of physical formats like CD and vinyl are declining overall, though the latter has been clawing ...

From 1979: A source “close to the matter” claims this document outlines a future Audio format that would utilize a tapeless design, and *snort* use lasers as some sort of record needle. Sounds like ...

Just as compact discs began replacing audiocassette tapes some 20 years ago, Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD) or Digital Video Disc-Audio (DVD-A) or both of the relatively new formats should commence ...

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 ...

So the Compact Disc is in terminal decline, it seems. Everyone is streaming, so those charity shops once stacked high with boxes of discarded vinyl records now have stacks of old CDs instead at a buck ...

I suppose the upturn in the fortunes of the Compact Disc was inevitable. Much like the resurgence of vinyl as a popular audio storage format, the revival of CD as a viable audio storage format is ...

Norio Ohga was a bidding opera singer and conductor who joined the Sony Corporation as a consultant but rose to become its chairman and chief executive. It was his love of music and keen ear for ...

DiscWelder Bronze 1000m produces simple DVD-Audio, DVD-Video, and compact discs from high-resolution stereo audio files. It duplicates any DVD-Audio content into a disc’s video zone, creating ...

Click to open image viewer. One (1) compact disc and one (1) cassette tape of an album Ivano Fossati recorded in 1992. The cover of the album shows the Spirit of St. Louis flying against a dark blue ...