At the time, CD players were a revolutionary way to listen to music using a combination of a lens and laser to interpret tiny ridges on the underside of the disc. The superior sound quality vs.

Who would’ve thought that in 2025, there would still be new vehicles being sold with CD players? Well, we checked, and our research shows that there are just four of them left. We get that if ...

A similar fate has befallen the laser head of CD mechanisms, which is why we don’t have those smooth, rounded players anymore. Economies of scale in the early 2000s mean that even a cheap player ...