A few weeks after FiiO revealed the CP13, a new-age portable cassette tape player with a super-cool transparent design, the hi-fi maker is diving back into old-school physical-media players that are ...

A deep dive into two legendary 1990s CD players—the Copland CDA 288 and YBA CD1 Blue Laser. Vintage, overbuilt, and sonically elite, these eccentric European classics still rival modern digital ...

In a year poised for portable tunes, the compact disc became readily available in 1986. The first iterations weren’t cheap though.One reporter visited a tech show in 1986 and explored the new ...

Gen X drives the vintage tech revival with CD players, Walkmans, and retro cameras—because streaming feels like shouting into a void. Discover why owning physical media is making a serious comeback.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Let’s look inside cassette and CD players that mix retro looks with modernized features. Let’s look inside ...

Popping a disc into a CD player was a luxury that '90s kids cherished. In fact, I still have my device from my childhood somewhere in my parents' home, along many burned CDs with songs I took from ...