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An Affordable Hi-Fi Brand Wants to Breathe New Life Into Your Old CD Collection

The desktop audio component looks pretty darn cool, as well.

km5 Gives Transparent Tech a High-Voltage Facelift With Its New Neon Audio Collection

By combining the purity of clear casing with the visual impact of neon, km5 has successfully elevated traditional CD players ...
Hackaday

Why Lorde’s Clear CD Has So Many Playback Issues

Despite the regularly proclaimed death of physical media, new audio albums are still being published on CD and vinyl. There’s something particularly interesting about Lorde’s new album Virgin however ...

Fosi Launches CD Player With Built-In DAC And Headphone Amplifier

The compact Marek CD player by Fosi Audio can play CDs and digital music stored on USB drives. It also has an optical output for pairing with an external DAC.
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Want a fancy new CD player? The best 3 new models, picked by an A/V expert

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 ...
Rolling Stone

Fans Claim Lorde’s ‘Virgin’ CDs Don’t Work in Most CD Players

Lorde is selling CD versions of her new album, Virgin, that are crystal clear, recyclable, and not listenable — at least for some fans. Across social media, fans have been voicing issues with the ...