CDs are dead. In 2020, revenue from sales of compact discs in the US added up to $483 million, a 97 percent drop from the format’s peak in 2000. Only 31.6 million CD units were shipped in the US last ...
Owning CDs in 2026 may seem counterintuitive given the easy availability of a near-endless variety of music on streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music. Unlike online music, physical discs ...
As much as physical media floats my boat, I still generally stream the majority of my music. It's convenient, with higher quality than most CDs (or even vinyl — come at me, all ye purists) at a ...
Our Audio expert Chris Haslam gives his personal recommendation for buying a modern portable cassette or CD player ...
Many people tend to associate musical nostalgia with the scratch of a needle against a vinyl record, but for me, it turns out a laser beam piercing the reflective surface of a spinning CD has the same ...
During long car rides, I like to have a bit of background music playing on the stereo. The type of music doesn’t really matter — I typically rotate through one of my many Spotify playlists. On a ...