Step away from your favourite streaming service, push the cumbersome and costly vinyl revival to one side, and forget your feelings for the comeback of CDs (and cassette tapes?) for one moment, because the best music format ever conceived, in my opinion, is the MiniDisc.
Back in 1992 – shoehorned in a timeline between CDs overtaking vinyl sales and the introduction of MP3 – Sony perfected portable audio two whole decades before digital downloads and streaming dominated the market.
