Forte Distribution recently announced that the Shanling EC Zero T portable hybrid CD player is now available in the U.S. The ...

Few electronics engineers can boast a CV and reputation as esteemed as Rainer Finck’s. In the mid-’80s, his career got off to a flyer as an application engineer at Philips Semiconductors, where he ...

Since the rise of streaming audio, CD players have been phased out of vehicles ... which is then converted into sound through a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) during playback.

BEAMS and Japanese audio brand km5 have teamed up for the launch of a clear version of the Instant Disk CP1 CD player ... futuristic sensibility to the analog device. km5’s Instant Disk CP1 ...

Early CD players, like this top-loading Sony D-50 ... offering far higher fidelity than existing analog formats like vinyl and cassettes. The CD-ROM followed in 1985, offering hundreds of ...

But the most telling indicator may be a recent embrace of analog technologies like flip phones, vinyl records, and cassette players ... music formats, like CD and vinyl, are having a similar ...

Analog, SPDIF, and USB audio connections are included, and the rechargeable battery can be bypassed while the CD player is in “desktop mode” and connected to a permanent power source.

Though the DM13 is indeed a portable CD player in the spirit of those 1980s ... and a line-level analog output, making the DM13 an easy add-on for home hi-fi setups. Plus, there are two headphone ...

And there's an analog line-out and an SPDIF digital one ... The one thing I remember most about portable CD players is how skip-prone they were, but it looks like FiiO has taken that into ...

you can use the DM13 with a home stereo system thanks to the Analog, SPDIF, and USB audio connections. A desktop mode lets you skip the battery and wire the CD player to a power source.

There are plenty of good reasons to pull out your CD, DVD and even VHS players. Not everything is ... Erik Varho are the proprietors of WHAMMY! Analog Media, the VHS cassette shop and microcinema ...