"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." One of the chief attractions of the compact disc is its durability compared to its fragile ...

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, ...

Audio outputs: left/right front, left/right surround, center, subwoofer, "stereo." A friend of mine came up to me a few weeks ago and made the following announcement. " Dan, do you want to borrow my ...

On 17 August 1982, Royal Philips Electronics manufactured the world's first compact disc at a Philips factory in Langenhagen, just outside of Hanover, Germany. The invention of the CD brought in a ...

This is the last chip that Philips made before moving away from Multi-bit technology, and it's the one that AMR says has a "startling analogue character". If you want to hear it for yourself, then the ...

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