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A new, limited-edition Ramones box set, titled ‘1! 2! 3! 4!’ features Atmos mixes of the punk legends’ first four albums on Blu-ray discs.
But a CD-R with sentimental value will always mean the most to me. It doesn’t even have to be that sentimental. Could be a concert bootleg I burned 10 years ago by a band I no longer like.
Joachim Trier’s sixth feature, Sentimental Value [+ see also: film review trailer interview: Joachim Trier film profile], starring Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Elle Fanning and Stellan ...
Seated in front of floor-to-ceiling shelves of CDs in the office of his house in the New York City suburbs, Ricky Byrd playfully grouses about the task at hand: picking 10 albums that changed his ...
By the time you read this, Simon Morris will have produced one thousand and one episodes of his film show At the Movies on RNZ National. On the occasion of reaching four figures, RNZ Concert invited ...
Since the rise of streaming audio, CD players have been phased out of vehicles over the past decade, and now hardly anyone bothers to include them in their models. 2025 Lexus IS — Source: Lexus ...
The Rotel Michi Q5 CD transport and DAC was previously announced in late 2024, but will finally be available to buy this March. It combines a CD and digital music player, with audiophile-standard ...
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 ...
You may like I found my old iPod Classic in a shoe-box, spent the week burning CDs to iTunes and now I can't go back to Spotify; I’m a second-hand hi-fi addict: these are my top tips for buying ...
You probably know that CDs are having a bit of a resurgence. It’s not nearly to the same level as vinyl, but CD sales increased last year for the first time in decades. And brands are taking notice.
The idea that CD audio was inherently flawed and could be better goes back to roughly the mid-1990s. In 1993, MTV's "Week in Rock" aired a segment about how some musicians and pundits were arguing ...