In consumer electronics, hot machines come and go. So with Sony Corp. and Philips N.V. racing to get new compact disc-quality digital recording systems out the doors, the question is, is Sony building ...

A CD-ROM drive can be used as a stand-alone unit for playing digital audio CDs without interfacing with a computer. The stereo output of CD player available at the audio jack can be amplified using ...

Ever since I picked up the Marantz PM-11S2 turntable, I've been amassing quite a collection of vinyl records. Flip the clock back two years ago and I would have never considered spinning records on my ...

What happens when a technology gets as good as it can? It's an interesting question, and not necessarily as far-fetched or ill-timed as you may imagine. Consider the world of digital audio. As a ...

DCC is a format that is long forgotten, but it absolutely demonstrates the extreme innovation that was around in the Nineties! For a long time in the eighties and nineties, the DAT recorder was the ...