In addition to a USB port (which can send digital audio directly to a computer), there’s an optical port, and a line-level analog output, making the DM13 an easy add-on for home hi-fi setups.

In the rare case we listen to an audio CD these days, we typically rely on off-the-shelf hardware to decode the 1s and 0s into the dulcet tones of Weird Al Yankovic for our listening pleasure. [Luk… ...

When the Compact Disc Digital Audio standard came out in 1980, there was a curious fact about it: It was 74 minutes long. Not 60 minutes. Or an even 70 minutes.