I turned to my old CD player. It is a Sony HCD-EH15 without speakers attached, which I use to play my CDs and listen to using a pair of Focal Elegia wired headphones. I love the sound of CDs ...

Christmas Day, 2003. Up until this point, I’d been living with a cassette player and the headphones that came in the box, occupying myself with audio versions of the Redwall books. The concept ...

“I was terribly disappointed when I purchased my 2022 Chevy Tahoe, to learn that GM dropped the option to have a CD player as part of the entertainment package. I travel and have always listened ...

A similar fate has befallen the laser head of CD mechanisms, which is why we don’t have those smooth, rounded players anymore. Economies of scale in the early 2000s mean that even a cheap player ...