The following story ran in the first-ever issue of SPIN in May 1985. Compact discs and compact disc players are the hottest things to hit the audio market since cassette tapes and players. However, ...

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 ...

One of my very favourite audio devices was the 6th generation iPod nano, a tiny digital music player consisting of a ...

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 ...

An obsolete form of optical media known as the "Compact Disc" celebrates its 25th birthday tomorrow. In a press release issued Thursday, Philips said a staggering 200 billion of them were produced ...

Since we last looked into the ongoing resurrection of the classic digital disc, even more CD playing devices have caught our eye. Here’s an update featuring the latest in standalones and separates, ...

CDs are an underrated music format and it’s nearly impossible to find a truly high-quality player at a reasonable price. The Backgroove CdPRO BGCS-41 is your best bet. Whether you’ve held onto an old ...

On October 1, 1982, the first commercial compact disc, Billy Joel’s “52nd Street,” was released in Japan. In the 30 years since, hundreds of billions of CDs have been sold, Joel has stopped recording ...

Lossless audio is the first step toward audio nirvana. But what is it, does it really make a difference, and how can you get ...

In the world of specialty audio-video publishing, there is likely no more vocal critic of the so-called resurgence of vinyl than me. By no means do I deny anybody any joy that they get from listening ...