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Shanling has announced the EC Play, a portable CD player looking to take advantage of the format's blossoming revival with younger listeners. With vinyl booming and even wired headphones making a ...

Regular readers will probably know me as the one who got really into turntables recently; overhauling my home system (twice!) to make it vinyl-focused and running our annual Vinyl Week celebrations ...

Wayne Player, son of golf legend Gary Player, was banned from the Masters for a guerrilla marketing stunt in 2021. During a ceremony honoring Lee Elder, Wayne Player held up a branded sleeve of golf ...

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Physical media has come back to popularity, mostly due to the outrageous pricing streaming services charge. Fosi Audio today announced the launch of the Merak CD Player, a compact, all-in-one digital ...

As of 2026, cars with built-in CD players are a thing of the past. The 2025 models of the Subaru Outback, Lexus IS, and Lexus RC were among the final holdouts for the iconic feature first introduced ...

This essentially puts a CD player into the same chassis as a turntable. I've seen this kind of thing before in combo systems from the likes of Victrola and Lenco, but I've certainly not come across a ...

The convenience of streaming music is unmatched, but in my opinion, it’s missing the intentionality that comes with physical media. My aunt passed her Sony CMT-NE3 CD player down to me as a kid, and ...

The 2026 NBA All-Star break offered the chance for the entire league to catch its breath, reset and look ahead to the playoffs, which – seemingly suddenly – start in two months. The break is also ...

After Subaru redesigned the Outback in 2025, and Lexus updated the IS and discontinued the RC, the automotive market put an end to an era: There now are no new cars sold with a CD player from the ...