Getting a better-quality CD experience without having to upgrade your CD player sounds delightful, doesn't it? Sony's new Blu-spec CD format promises just that, employing the same technology used to ...

Some conspiracy theorists suspect the new Super Audio CD is a sinister plot to replace the traditional compact disc with a highly encrypted new format virtually immune to piracy. They’ve found the ...

The appeal to consumers was supposed to be better and more lifelike sound quality. The appeal to music companies was supposed to be a new digital format that consumers couldn't Napster-ize or cheaply ...

At $2,399, the Shanling ONIX Zenith XST20 SACD/CD Transport is here to breathe new life into the “dead” audiophile formats of SACD and CD. Back to the future with SACD? Moments like this make me ...

The rise and fall of the digital compact cassette remains a salutary lesson for tech titans—it shows how you can get nearly everything right, and yet still fail badly. Like Britpop, whose 1993-1996 ...

When you look at the excitement that Dolby Digital and dts 5.1-channel soundtracks from DVDs can generate played over a good home theater system, it’s not surprising that Sony/Philips and the DVD ...

[Music] welcome to another video from explaining computers.com this time we're going to look at audio file formats these can be divided into high quality formats that are not compressed high quality ...

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 ...