The following story ran in the first-ever issue of SPIN in May 1985. Compact discs and compact disc players are the hottest things to hit the audio market since cassette tapes and players. However, ...

If you are making music, which one is better: CD or vinyl? Since the vinyl record format’s recent comeback, there has been an increasing discourse about what physical audio format is better between ...

The market battle between Super Audio Compact Disc and DVD-Audio may be the least interesting standards war ever. Both of the mutually incompatible higher-fidelity music formats claim vastly better ...

Sales of vinyl records surpassed those of CDs in the U.S. for the first time since 1986, marking a key turning point for the format’s nostalgia-fueled resurgence. People spent $232.1 million on ...

Vinyl is booming, streaming services are more popular than ever, and we’re all depressed. This means one thing and one thing only: it’s time to reassess CDs. Yes, friends, you read that correctly. The ...

Having a 180g sticker on your vinyl has become a bit of a badge of honour for some record labels and has led to some assumptions that the heavier the vinyl the better the sound. Most vinyl from the ...

Q. I am confused about modern vinyl records. I have seen multiple negative reviews regarding the sound of newly manufactured vinyl, at least with some albums initially released in the 1950s-1980s. Why ...