The stated goal of the new combination book and compact disc "Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980-1980" (144 pages with CD; $40; Dust to Digital) is impressively brash: "It's a ...

Those who have heard pianist Craig Sheppard’s traversal of Bach works will need no further invitation to acquire this remarkable two-disc set. The “Well-Tempered Clavier” is a monumental set of 24 ...

James Russell's mother told him that his first invention was the “automated battleship” he built when he was 6. By the time he was 13, he was fixing toasters, irons and fans at a local appliance store ...

Sam is a journalist based in Vancouver, BC. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in English literature with a minor in Creative Writing, cutting her teeth through her ...

We always enjoy the odd things that people do to try to get better audio reproduction. Exotic cables, special amplifiers, and higher resolution digitization come to mind. Most of this is dubious, at ...

CD has been quietly sitting in the corner, wondering whether it’s time to call it a night, while the download generation has been taking over the party. Now it seems the Compact Disc is dialling for a ...

Zach Pincus expresses concern about what may become a problem with how OS X deals with audio, and how that interacts with Macrovision's SafeAudio CD copy protection. [SafeAudio is a scheme recently ...

The CD revolutionized the music industry, but it was never cool. Even as CD sales eclipsed and nearly exterminated vinyl, the format was plagued by accusations that its sound was inferior, that it was ...

But as CD sales have plummeted, vinyl’s sales figures have been moving in the other direction. The CD-versus-vinyl debate — and, by extension, the debate over digital versus analog sound — has only ...