For quality purposes, some people prefer to use home audio CD players over streaming to listen to their favorite tunes.

Sure, most of us satisfy our music-listening needs these days using our phones, tablets, and smart speakers, but that doesn't mean a dedicated MP3 player or portable music player is a completely ...

Compaq Computer is putting a new spin on its digital audio players. The Houston-based company announced on Monday two new players that use discs instead of expensive flash memory cards to store songs.

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Why do CDs get such a bad rap? After all, it wasn’t that ...

While TVs have become better and better over the past 15 years, audio has taken several steps backwards. Many of us have sacrificed fidelity in pursuit of convenience and portability, adopting ...

Which home audio CD player is best? In today’s fast-moving streaming-first world, it can be hard to comprehend still using physical music media. What many people don’t realize is that you pay in audio ...

Portable audio should by all rights by extinct, such is the ubiquity and ease of streaming music and podcasts from one’s smart device. Yet scan through the list of manufacturers supplying pocketable ...

The early 2000s were the halcyon days of physical media. While not as svelte as MP3 players became, why are those early 2000s machines smaller than all the new models popping up amidst the retro audio ...