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 ...

When it comes to discussions of digital audio, you’ll quickly run into an alphabet soup of acronyms: MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, DSD, and so on. It’s practically endless. You’d think that with this ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Gone are the times when we used to listen to music on CD players. While everything around us is getting digital, we want our music to be digital too. Keeping a pile of CDs is too old-fashioned, and we ...

EZ CD Audio Converter converts music files between all audio file formats in the highest audio quality with the ultra-precise audio engine and the professional quality sample rate converter. Over 50 ...

EZ CD Audio Converter converts music files between all audio file formats in the highest audio quality with the ultra-precise audio engine and the professional quality sample rate converter. Over 50 ...

Sony’s PlayStation consoles have been a great way to watch movies and TV shows on discs, and they even helped popularize the DVD and Blu-ray formats. The PlayStation 5 is carrying on that tradition, ...